Asteroid (disambiguation)

An asteroid is an astronomical object. Specific variants include the following:

• Amor asteroid
• Apollo asteroid
• Apohele asteroid
• Arjuna asteroid
• Aten asteroid
• Binary asteroid
• Maria asteroid
• Near Earth asteroid, or Near Earth object, a family of asteroids and a few other objects that pass especially close to the Earth
• Trojan asteroid

Asteroid or Asteroids may also refer to:

Animals

• Asteroid (horse), a successful thoroughbred racehorse in the United States
• Asteroidea (sea stars), a class of invertebrate animals

Astrophysics

• Asteroid belt
• Asteroid deflection strategies
• Asteroid moon

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

• Asteroid (film), 1997 TV movie about the American Government trying to stop an asteroid colliding with the Earth
• Asteroid, a movie on the Sci Fi Channel

Games

• Asteroids (video game), a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari
  • Asteroids Deluxe, the sequel to Asteroids the arcade game, produced in 1980 by Atari
  • Asteroids Hyper 64, an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999

Music

• Asteroid (album), album by Taiwanese rock band 1976
• Asteroid (Pearl & Dean theme), a piece of music used to introduce cinema advertising reels distributed by Pearl & Dean
• "Asteroid", a song by Killing Joke from the album Killing Joke
• "Asteroid", a song by Kyuss from the album Welcome to Sky Valley

Astrology

• Asteroids in astrology

See also

• Astroid, a particular type of mathematical curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps