- published: 23 Feb 2015
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Asteroids (from Greek ἀστεροειδής - asteroeidēs, "star-like", from ἀστήρ "star" and εἶδος "like, in form") are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids. Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic. They are grouped with the outer bodies—centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects—as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles. This article will restrict the use of the term 'asteroid' to the minor planets of the inner Solar System.
A million miles away
We can run, we can be lost in space
Counting down from ten
With a spark we can start our life again
Who says we can't fly, fly away
Who says we can't run, run away...
With the asteroids!
Writing off our friends
All alone we are lost again
Writing off our pain, cause we run, run away...
With the asteroids!
Please don't you ever crash, or or fly or stay in space
Please don't you ever crash, or or try and save the day
Away and away and you watch me
Touch down, I won't stay
Away and away and you want me...to stay
Counting down the days
We can run, we can be lost in space
Falling off the end
With a spark we can start our life again
Who says we can't fly, fly away
Who says we can't run, run away...
With the asteroids!
Please don't you ever crash, or or fly or stay in space
Please don't you ever crash, or or try and save the day
Away and away and you watch me
Touch down, I won't stay
Away and away and you want me...but I cannot stay!!
Release my wings, please cut these strings
So I can fly, and fly, and fly...away
She says she wants me to stay
She says she wants me to stay
She says she wants me to stay