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The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
But tiny glass spheroids riddle the lunar regolith—the rock chips and other loose material covering the lunar surface.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
With such a resume, H. erectus may have possessed the know-how to fashion a spheroid.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
But tiny glass spheroids riddle the lunar regolith—the rock chips and other loose material covering the lunar surface.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
With such a resume, H. erectus may have possessed the know-how to fashion a spheroid.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spheroid. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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spheroid
noun
spher·oid
ˈsfi(ə)r-ˌȯid 
ˈsfe(ə)r-
: a figure resembling a flattened sphere
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