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5020 and Asimov
5020 Asimov is an asteroid discovered March 2, 1981 by Schelte J.
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Bus who also discovered 5020 Asimov on the same day.
* The asteroids 4923 Clarke and 5020 Asimov were discovered on the same night by astronomer Schelte J.

5020 and after
Edwards entered the 2007 Chase for the Nextel Cup in 4th place, with 5020 points, based on his two wins in the 2007 season, clinching a spot in the Chase after his win at the Sharpie 500 at Bristol.

Asimov and asteroid
The final chapters take place on the asteroid Vesta, which Asimov notes is the brightest of the asteroids.

Asimov and discovered
When Asimov wrote his first robot stories in 1939 / 1940, the positron was a newly discovered particle and so the buzz word positronic, coined by analogy with electronic, added a contemporary gloss of popular science to the concept.
Since the story was written, it has been discovered that the tidal locking of Mercury's rotation does not in fact result in a permanently dark hemisphere, and Asimov was careful to ensure that this was noted when the story appeared in anthologies printed after this advance in scientific knowledge.
Asimov had seen nuclear power escape the control of the scientists who discovered it and become the plaything of politicians who only dimly understood it, and who seemed blind to the danger it represented.

Asimov and 1981
In 1981, after the series had long been considered one of the most important works of modern science fiction, Asimov was persuaded by his publishers to write a fourth book, which became Foundation's Edge ( 1982 ).
Visions of the Universe ( ISBN 978-0939540013 ) is a book written by Kazuaki Iwasaki and Isaac Asimov in 1981.

Asimov and named
* Asimov ( crater ), an impact crater on Mars, named after Isaac Asimov
* Asimov's Science Fiction, an American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov
* Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, a short-lived American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov
Asimov once added a " Zeroth Law "— so named to continue the pattern where lower-numbered laws supersede the higher-numbered laws — stating that a robot must not harm humanity.
The demands of the plot required Asimov to hypothesize a planetary system about a star named Nemesis.
Cowell stated at a popular BBS convention they named the company as an homage to Asimov and because in his science fiction works US Robotics eventually became " the biggest company in the universe ".
Such instances include: several of the Wolves carrying weapons that resemble lightsabers and a " messenger robot " similar in demeanor to the android C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, with the look of an Isaac Asimov robot ; the Wolves themselves seeming to bear a physical resemblance to Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics comic books, and flying grenades named " sneetches " that are stated as being from the " Harry Potter " product line ( a direct reference to the Golden Snitch from the J. K. Rowling books, and to the Dr. Seuss characters ).
Through the use of psychohistory, a future science hypothesized by Asimov, a scientist on Trantor named Hari Seldon in about 12, 000 Galactic Era predicts the fall of the empire, and institutes the two foundations.
It is named after Isaac Asimov, the prolific American science fiction author.
However, after publication of The Early Asimov, a fan named Matthew Bruce Tepper found a copy of the original version among Asimov's papers at Boston University, and Asimov finally published the story in the anthology Before the Golden Age.
Murder at the ABA ( 1976 ) is a mystery novel by Isaac Asimov, following the adventures of a writer and amateur detective named Darius Just, whom Asimov modeled on his friend Harlan Ellison.
According to Asimov, a book named Murder at Frankfurt had been written, placing a fictional mystery story at the Frankfurt Book Fair ( Germany ).
Bus, and named by him in honor of authors Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.

Asimov and after
The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).
It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original Foundation trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.
If all works are included, in total, there are fourteen novels and dozens of short stories written by Asimov, and seven novels written by other authors after his death, expanding the time spanned in the original trilogy ( roughly 550 years ) by more than twenty thousand years.
In 1982, Asimov gave in after a thirty-year hiatus, and wrote what was at the time a fourth volume: Foundation's Edge.
According to his widow Janet Asimov ( in her biography of Isaac, It's Been a Good Life ), he had no idea how to continue after Foundation and Earth, so he started writing the prequels.
However, when Asimov decided decades later to retroactively integrate the universe of his Foundation and Galactic Empire novels with that of his Robot stories, a number of changes and minor discrepancies surfaced — the character R. Daneel Olivaw was established as having existed for some 20, 000 years, with the original Robot novels featuring the character occurring not more than a couple of millennia after the early-21st century Susan Calvin short stories.
Asimov later explained that the in-universe reason for this perception was that it was formulated by Earthmen many centuries after the event, and which had become distorted, due to the loss of much of their planetary history.
A further two books of short stories were published shortly after, and decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels.
The publication of Foundation and Empire was preceded and followed by one each of two books of short stories were published shortly before and after, and decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels.
Joel Davis of Davis Publications approached Asimov to lend his name to a new science fiction magazine, after the fashion of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine or Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
* In The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov ( 1955 ), it is in the late 27th century that the researches of Jan Verdeer and the mathematician Antoine Lefebvre realize the exploitation of " temporal field " technology some three centuries after its mysterious empirical discovery by an eccentric inventor in the 24th.
It is the first book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
It is the second book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
It is the third book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
As depicted by Asimov, the company keeps its name even after the US itself was absorbed into a bigger political unit and no longer exists as such.
Asimov created the Galactic Empire in the early 1940s based upon the Roman Empire, as a proposal to John W. Campbell, after reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire when he was working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Robert Heinlein.
In the original Asimov books, it is unknown if Dors has been repaired after the damage.

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