Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there was Eros, the cigar-shaped planetoid that swung end over end in an orbit beyond that of Mars, and on, and in which Wilma and I found things that staggered and shattered our imaginations. -From The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century...
...found a mechanism that can move an asteroid from the asteroid belt into an earth-crossing orbit in such a short time. The only way would be a truly catastrophic event, and we would see shock effects in the meteorite if such an event occurred," McCrosky added...
...second time in the history of astronomy, the orbit of a meteorite has been calculated to extend out to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter...
Richard E. McCrosky, lecturer in astronomy, used a series of photographs taken near Lost City, Oklahoma, on Jan. 3 to track the fiery descent of a meteorite and calculate its elliptical orbit...
Hundreds of meteors' orbits have been calculated from these photographs, and search parties have looked for meteorite fragments twice before. But this is the first time the Network's scientists have been able to recover a fragment and also calculate its orbit...