Just to add to your wonderful list of information:
Soccer as a term was adopted in North America
except for Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Belize...
At this point it's easier to say "was adopted by the USA and Canada".

So aster means star and asteroid means star-like, right? I get that they're not stars, but lumps of stone and ice, but they burn when they pass by and appear to us as shooting stars, so star-like.
Or am I thinking of meteorites?And what's the deal with planets? That they're not planar?