Views of the Solar System: Asteroid Introduction
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Description: Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. - Dennis Gabor Asteroids are rocky and metallic objects that orbit the Sun but are too small to be considered planets. They are known as . Asteroids range in size from Ceres, which has a diameter of about 1000 km, down to the size of pebbles. Sixteen asteroids have a diameter of 240 km or greater. They have been found inside Earth's orbit to beyond Saturn's orbit. Most, however, are contained within a
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| Page title: | Asteroid Introduction |
| Keywords: | asteroid, asteroids, rocky, metallic, minor planet, minor planets, main belt, meteor crater, barringer meteor crater, castalia, eros, gaspra, geographos, ida, dactyl, mathilde, toutatis, vesta, NEAR, earth crossing asteroids, meteoroids, meteorite, galileo, ceres, davida, eunomia, hygiea, interamnia, pallas, psyche, sylvia, lutetia |
| Description: | Asteroids are rocky and metallic objects that orbit the Sun but are too small to be considered planets. They are known as minor planets -- Explore the worlds of asteroids. |
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