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Asteroid

Small celestial body composed of rock and metal, typically much smaller than a planet, often irregularly shaped. Asteroids often occurred in orbital belts within a star system, sometimes the debris remaining from the formation of that system, other times the fragments remaining from the disintegration of a planet. Larger asteroids were sometimes called planetoids.

In 2267, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 attempted to divert an asteroid that was on a collision course with an inhabited planet.^[1] A Type-C asteroid crashed into an unpopulated continent of Penthara IV in 2367, threatening an ecological disaster until the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-170-D helped dispel its dust cloud.^[2] Another asteroid from the Pelloris Field threatened Tessen III with the same type of destruction in 2368 before it was vaporized by the same starship. Its nitrium alloy core prevented a tractor beam lock, and it was undamaged when hit by photon torpedoes. It was later discovered to be the home of metal parasites.^[3]

See also:

• actinides
• Alpha Omicron system
• asteroid, Badlands
• asteroid gamma 601
• Babel
• Bre’el IV
• Chamra Vortex
• Cold Station 12
• co-orbital satellite
• cutter
• Deltived Asteroid Belt
• Gamma II
• Hanolin asteroid belt
• Holberg 917G
• Ikalian asteroid belt
• Meltasion asteroid belt
• Memory Alpha
• Regula
• Rura Penthe
• Selebi asteroid belt
• Vlugta asteroid belt
• Yonada

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References

• ^[1]TOS-58: The Paradise Syndrome
• ^[2]TNG-209: A Matter of Time
• ^[3]TNG-220: Cost of Living