Unstable Future - Prologue
Mars had been shattered by that explosion and it showed signs of becoming a third asteroid belt.
Voyager: Prologue
If an asteroid or a mining ship went by the telescope at the right moment, it would form a dark splotch on the final results and it was alexie's and frank's job to find such splotches and fix them when possible. "fine... frank, look at what i found."
The Chronicles of Eurenia: The Svaria War - Chapter One
"an asteroid." "that." he snapped a finger at me. "the citizens said they witnessed an asteroid crashing just outside their walls, near a major road." "really?" i was interested. "yeah, and we had to send a group to go check it out.
Preparations Pt 1
Matter of ancient novel asteroids.”
Dragon Chronicles Book One: Burning Twilight
After two years they cleared the asteroid belt and were passing close to mars. however the mars mining colony was on the far side at the time and couldn't see the pieces.
Chapter IX: Station of the Dead, Part One
However, instead of zooming in to the planet it dragged away and focused in on a tiny asteroid floating around earth.
Von Foxfire FA Commission Complete Collection
Shifting controls over to manual, vonfoxfire piloted his ship towards the point of interest, asteroid 92748.95. to his surprise however, once reaching the asteroid, a n.u.n. navy s.o.s. signal reached his console.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 13
"the terraforming units will let us drill some new structures into some of the nearby asteroids, and if you keep bringing cargo along with the bodies, we'll be fine, don't worry."
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 4
Figures and equations flashed between their thoughts, trajectories and orbits that would come later, calculations for hyper wave trajectories, asteroid drift patterns, all the readings from the sensors aboard the pride.
A Warrior's Heart Chapter 11
Jules has the coordinates and the asteroid drift calculations." "i can't wait to see it," firebreather said. "i've heard about it on occasion, someplace where the mrr'tani can go to get fully away from the humans. even more free than avalon."
Counter Earth Chronicles Dual Realities Chapter 54: The Distance Is Not The Issue, It Is What Is In Between That Is
“okay we finished off this area here consisting of the impact site of the asteroid." dane said making a diagram of the wilderness around the former world five. “to the west is that farm which is a satellite offshoot." ed added.
The Home Front
Stardate 67265: the _dark horse_ is engaged in mining operations when one of your crew is captured by a previously known, primitive culture on the planet--soon to be destroyed by an asteroid you were simultaneously researching.