Crossword-Solution: ASTEROID 8 letters, 84 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Asteroid n. A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets
whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also
planetoids and minor planets.

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We have 84 clues for the answer “ASTEROID”

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Kuiper Belt object 1 answer
Body in a belt 1 answer
Celestial body in a belt 1 answer
Ceres is the largest 1 answer
Ceres or Eros, e.g. 1 answer
Ceres or Juno 1 answer
Ceres or Pallas 1 answer
Ceres or Vesta, e.g. 1 answer
Component of a big belt 1 answer
Dinosaur nemesis, perhaps 1 answer
Eros or Vesta 1 answer
Floating rock 1 answer
Hebe 1 answer
Scientific object poorly understood until the early 20th century 1 answer
Body in a large belt 1 answer
Maker of belt loops 1 answer
Mini-planet 1 answer
Mini-planet beyond Mars 1 answer
Minor orbiter 1 answer
One of many planetoids between Mars and Jupiter. 1 answer
One of thousands of small planets 1 answer
Orbiter between Mars and Jupiter 1 answer
Rocky orbiting body 1 answer
Part of a belt 1 answer
Part of a big belt 1 answer
Part of a celestial belt 1 answer
Rock/metal ensemble 1 answer
Small celestial body 1 answer
Starfish or minor planet 1 answer
Starlike body. 1 answer
Telescope sighting 1 answer
Very small planet 1 answer
Space phenomenon. 1 answer
Body between Mars and Jupiter 1 answer
Something that may be found in a belt 1 answer
Small celestial body composed of rock and metal 1 answer
A lump of rock in space 1 answer
ALAUDA 1 answer
Vesta is one 1 answer
Aletheia 1 answer
Small body orbiting sun 1 answer
Bamberga 1 answer
Belt component 1 answer
Vesta or Eros 1 answer
Vesta, Pallas or Hygiea 1 answer
Belt out past Mars 1 answer
What had a major impact on this puzzle's theme? 1 answer
Separated rock formation 2 answers
planetoid 2 answers
MINOR planet 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASTEROID (5)

The label `Finagle's Law' was popularized by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this `Belter' culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Star Tours fools your body into thinking that you are in a space ship careening through an asteroid belt, but in reality, you are suspended on a few guy wires.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
But who is that other one that has been lengthening his stride from the first, and now shows close up to the front? Don’t you remember the quiet brown colt _Asteroid_, with the star in his forehead? That is he; he is one of the sort that lasts; look out for him! The black “colt,” as we used to call him, is in the background, taking it easily in a gentle trot.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
March 31 12 53 51.9 15 39 52.32 -23 50 26.1 12.9 April 1 1 3 2.1 15 39 52.32 -23 9 1.9 12.9 He proposes for the asteroid the name of Phoebe.
The brick moon and other stories Edward Everett Hale 1999
Petersburg, to claim the discovery of an asteroid in a very high southern latitude, of a wider inclination of the orbit, as will be noticed, than any asteroid yet observed.
The brick moon and other stories Edward Everett Hale 1999

Quotes with ASTEROID (3)

[L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs — meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.
Peter H. Diamandis Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith: Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished. I haven’t faced rejection this brutal since I was single. He smelled trouble like a fart in the shower. If this was a kiss of gratitude, then she must have been very grateful. Not since Bush and Cheney have so few spent so much so fast for so long for so little. As a nympho for mind-fucks, Lisa took to politics like a pig to mud. She…
Brent Reilly
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.
Bonnie Jo Campbell American Salvage
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 50 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).