To this it was at first replied that the perturbations of the asteroidal orbits, by the attractions of the major planets, would soon displace them in such a manner that they would cease to intersect.
Simon Newcomb was directed to the solution of this question, and he arrived at the conclusion that the planetary perturbations could not explain the actual situation of the asteroidal orbits.
Phyfe, leader of the present group, was probably the greatest student of asteroidalarcheology in the System.
The most magnificent find in a century of asteroidal archeology.
Aboard the laboratory ship few of the members of the permanent Smithson Asteroidal Expedition were aware that they were in motion.
It had answered some of the problems raised by asteroidal archeology.
We may also advert to the theory of Doctor Olbers, that the asteroidal group, are the fragments of a larger planet which once filled the vacancy between Mars and Jupiter.
Let those who have the leisure, try how far the contraction and dilation of the asteroidal orbits, to some average mean distance, will restore them to a common intersection or node, as the point of divergence of the different fragments.
The asteroidal space between Mars and Jupiter is probably a wide meteoric ring in which the largest aggregations are visible as minor planets.
As the earth's orbit is the boundary which separates the inferior from the superior planets, so does the asteroidal belt divide the terrestrial from the major planets.
Empty spaces, too, exist in the asteroidal zone, the relative position of one of which bears a striking resemblance to that of "Cassini's division.
Carse had the "feel" of the asteroidal ship and his controlling hand grew bolder.
Wide gaps exist in the asteroidal zone where few or no members of the group are to be found, and Prof.
It may be true that a large planet once occupied the asteroidal space, and that the same has been rent by some violence into thousands of fragments.
Some astronomers have given and are still giving their almost undivided attention toasteroidal investigation.
Or again, it may be that a large planet is now in process of formation in the asteroidal space.
He finds that nearly all the asteroidal matter is concentrated near to the middle of the ring in the neighbourhood of the mean distance of 2.
These eccentricities seem to indicate that the forms of the asteroidal orbits were influenced by special causes.
These planes will intersect the asteroidal orbits, each in four points, and "the mean intersection at each solstice and equinox may be considered a point in the average orbit.
The rings of Saturn are merely a dense asteroidal cluster; and, finally, the phenomena of luminous meteors indicate the existence of small masses of matter moving with different velocities in interstellar space.
We thus see that in the formation of the solar system the eccentricity of an asteroidal orbit could not increase beyond a moderate limit without the planet's return to the solar mass.
The crowd of orbits disclosed by asteroidal detections invites attentive study.
Even the secondary purpose--that of asteroidal discovery--served by detailed stellar enumeration, is more surely attained by photography than by laborious visual comparison.
Harding's "Celestial Atlas," designed for the special purpose of facilitating asteroidal research, was the first systematic attempt to represent to the eye the telescopic aspect of the heavens.
The existence, too, of numerous asteroidal pairs travelling in approximately coincident tracks, must date from a remote antiquity.
Since 1846 no single year has passed without bringing its tribute of asteroidal discovery.
The name of Olbers has already been brought prominently before our readers in connection with asteroidal discoveries; these, however, were but chance excursions from the path of cometary research which he steadily pursued through life.
The discovery might be compared to, if it did not transcend in importance, that of the asteroidal group.
Possibly it belongs to a zone peopled by asteroidal satellites.
The floor of the room was simply the asteroidal rock surface, not completely level and smooth.
But the wrecked Falcon had been marooned there in the weird asteroidal jungle, with the alien, menacing Vestans already gathering around it.
Outside the electric wall, which had been hastily re-raised, could be glimpsed the shapes of lurking asteroidal animals.
And as the electric barrier vanished, into the clearing came rushing the swarm of asteroidal animals.
The three stellene rings bumped lightly on the ten mile chunk of captured asteroidal rock and nickel-iron that was Phobos, Mars' nearer moon.
I killed a man, Frank--with this pre-Asteroidal knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asteroidal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
