| A long-term project to study how the brightness of Pallas varies with the asteroidal latitude of the sub-solar point is nearing completion. |
| Our understanding of astronomy has shown us that cometary and asteroidal impacts are relatively commonplace over timescales of hundreds of millions of years. |
| These satellites range in size from small on the asteroidal scales, to nearly as large as Saturn's moon Mimas. |
| Minerals in large asteroidal bodies experience heating processes, such metamorphism has caused recrystallizations and mineralogical changes. |
| Had dinosaurs not been annihilated by an asteroidal impact, mammals might still be small, nocturnal insect-eaters unable to evolve higher intelligence. |
| A fortuitous recent result of asteroidal spectrography found that the object under observation was, in fact, a nearly dormant comet. |
