All 50 Uses of "asteroid" in "Live Free or Die, by John Ringo" - Auto-generated

They had databases of all the really enormous amounts of stuff, comets, asteroids, bits, pieces, minor moons, rocks and just general debris, that filled the system.†

p. 4.8

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

A carbonaceous asteroid with a twenty-five megaton airburst yield like Tunguska was unlikely to occur over anything important.†

p. 5.3 *

Chris had started as a filter technician ("Yes, that's an asteroid.†

p. 5.6

The way that asteroids and comets are detected has to do with the way that stars are viewed.†

p. 5.8

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

Asteroids and comets are closer than stars and if they are moving across your angle of view they create such a streak.†

p. 6.1

Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt.†

p. 9.1

According to my experts, most of this stuff is to be found in asteroids.†

p. 18.8

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

We've got a ton of asteroids just cluttering up the damned system.†

p. 18.9

Most of what we mine is from asteroids that have crashed into the Earth.†

p. 18.9

Why not just mine the asteroid belt?†

p. 18.9

"We have ...an extensive asteroid belt," the undersecretary of state for interstellar affairs said, throwing in her only bone.†

p. 19.7

However, our laws, and long experience, prevent us from mining your asteroid belt as long as there is not a centralized, or at least effectively sovereign, system government.†

p. 19.9

The Horvath have, also, offered the asteroid belt.†

p. 20.1

There are enormous problems with asteroid mining.†

p. 20.1

They looked as if they were suckled on asteroids.†

p. 78.9

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

I want to melt asteroids.†

p. 99.8

Basic idea is boost a bunch of mirrors, focus them on an asteroid, melt it and pull off the metals.†

p. 100.1

Which asteroids are you thinking of mining?†

p. 101.1

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

You can use the renewable power of our beautiful Sun to turn dangerous asteroids into useful materials.†

p. 105.3

"Asteroid 33342 1998 WT," Dr. Bryan Foster said.†

p. 114.9

What is called a 'Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.'†

p. 115.5

This wasn't the asteroid he thought they were looking kr.†

p. 115.6

I thought that was the big problem asteroid.†

p. 115.7

The acknowledged asteroid expert was damned near as big as Mr. Haselbauer.†

p. 116.5

Although the asteroid is currently well within the orbit of Venus, the degree of thermal coefficient necessary for successful melting of the entire, assuming any significant quantity of nickel iron in its composition, is one point six times ten to the sixteenth joules.†

p. 117.1

The screen suddenly flashed up a picture of what was clearly an asteroid rotating slowly in space.†

p. 117.8

As far as he could see it was still an asteroid rotating in space.†

p. 117.9

I was expecting an asteroid-shattering kaboom.†

p. 117.9

"We don't actually want an asteroid-shattering kaboom," Dr. Bell said in a distracted tone.†

p. 117.9

Asteroids one oh one.†

p. 118.9

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

Don't, please, go into the whole 'there's no such thing as asteroids.'†

p. 118.9

That's an asteroid.†

p. 119.1

For the purpose of this company and its nomenclature, an asteroid is something that is mostly rock or at least stuff like rock such as metal and carbon.†

p. 119.1

Asteroid.†

p. 119.3

And most asteroids are, sorry, Dr. Bell, rock.†

p. 119.5

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

Can't we just call those carbon asteroids?†

p. 119.6

But most asteroids aren't one thing or another.†

p. 119.6

Especially the asteroid belt.†

p. 119.8

Most of what you define as asteroids probably started in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.†

p. 119.8

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

Most of what you define as asteroids probably started in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.†

p. 119.8

The asteroid belt is, probably, a planet that either didn't quite form or sort of formed and then got pulled apart by tidal forces from Jupiter.†

p. 119.9

So you have dust-covered rocks of varying size which then ground together, producing more dust and fusing together into the asteroids we're looking at.†

p. 120.4

asteroids = some or all of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter

which are for scientific definitions just really big asteroids.†

p. 120.5

I thought the purpose of my VLA was to melt asteroids?†

p. 120.9

I thought you wanted to heat up asteroids?†

p. 121.7

Not to mention find an asteroid that's not just a ball of sand.†

p. 122.3

Assume a more or less consistent nickel iron asteroid.†

p. 122.5

The Transvaal formations are from a nickel iron asteroid, as are the Sudbury complexes.†

p. 122.6

The asteroid is spinning.†

p. 123.1

I think we need a better asteroid.†

p. 124.5

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