approacher

English

Etymology

approach +‎ -er

Noun

approacher (plural approachers)

1. Someone or something that approaches.
2. (astronomy) An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory.
   • 1997 December 19, Erik Asphaug, “PLANETARY SCIENCE: Enhanced: New Views of Asteroids”, in Science‎^[1], volume 278, number 5346, →DOI, pages 2070-2071:

     Extensive upgrades to the Arecibo antenna will be completed this spring, providing dozens of Toutatis-quality detections per year, spacecraft-quality images of the closest approachers, and hundred-pixel images of dozens of main-belt asteroids ( 9 ).

   • 2005 June 3, Ted McClelland, “Something Big Is Out There”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     We have some close approachers," he says, "but not one that would have an impact trajectory."

Translations

someone or something that approaches

• Finnish: lähestyjä
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• Portuguese: aproximador m

asteroid

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Anagrams

• reapproach