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• a  of or relating to or resembling an asteroid

• Passing twice through the asteroid belt, it snapped the first closeup images of the asteroid Gaspra and discovered the first asteroidal moon, a tiny clump (later named Dactyl .
• Some estimates put the number of asteroidal water deposits at 5 million.

Quotes

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• Erik Ian Asphaug in CNN International
  This asteroidal Botox calls into question the habit of dating asteroid surfaces through their cratering record,Asphaug writes in a separate analysis in the journal.
• Boris Johnson in guardian.co.uk
  We politicians can't just sit like slack-jawed victims of some tsunami or asteroidal impact. We can't just blame Gordon Brown for 10 years of profligacy. That milk is spilt,Johnson wrote. "We have to recognise that this downturn is a big,...