Asteroid (disambiguation)

Asteroid or Asteroids may refer to:

• Asteroid, the astronomical object; this is the primary definition. Specific variants include the following:
  • Amor asteroid
  • Apollo asteroid
  • Apohele asteroid
  • Arjuna asteroid
  • Aten asteroid
  • Binary asteroid
  • Maria asteroid
  • Near Earth asteroid, redirects to Near Earth object, a family of asteroids and a few other objects, that pass especially close to the Earth.
  • Trojan asteroid

Mathematics

• Incorrect spelling of astroid, one of a family planar curves that in some way resembles a 4-pointed star.

Media

• 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.
• Asteroid Belt (album), Velvet Chain's 5th album, released in November 2003 under the Freak Records label
• Asteroid (Pearl & Dean), a piece of music played in cinemas in the UK, before and after the Advertising section before the feature film, owned by Advertising firm Pearl & Dean
• 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
• Asteroid (radio), a radio program from the American radio anthology series "Radio Tales"
• "Asteroid", a song by Kyuss from the album Welcome to Sky Valley
• Asteróid, Brazilian heavy metal band

See also

• Asteroid (horse), a successful Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States.
• Asteroid belt
• Asteroid moon
• Asteroid deflection strategies
• Astroid, a particular type of mathematical curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps
• Sea star, belong to a class of invertebrate animals known as Asteroidea
• Asteroids in astrology