Word: asteroid
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...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...Fund itself with drug money b) Land a rocket on a moving asteroid c) Deliver a pizza, only to find two scantily clad women d) Crouch a tiger, hide a dragon...
...Omen An asteroid large enough to wipe out France came within 800,000 km of hitting Earth?and was spotted by astronomers only days before it hurtled past...
...Strategic Air Command and studied nonnuclear-strategic-weapons technology and worked on the Stealth bomber program. He later went back to the Jet Propulsion Lab, where he worked on the Cassini mission to Saturn and was the project engineer for the short-lived Kraft mission to study an asteroid flyby...
Other names are noteworthy simply for their romanticism. Craters that dot the asteroid Eros include Cupid, Lolita and, somewhat oddly, Don Quixote. But some make no apparent sense at all. Craters on the asteroid Gaspra are named in honor of natural springs (Saratoga, Baden-Baden), and those on the dark asteroid Mathilde honor--no kidding--major coal seams, such as the Lorraine in France. Given this list of increasingly wacky categories, the IAU may want to consider one more honoree when it meets to ratify names three years from now: Alex Trebek, host of TV's Jeopardy! --By Michael...