NSSDC Lunar & Planetary Science: Asteroids Page ... Missions to Asteroids ... Frequently Asked Questions - Asteroids...
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Information on Selected Asteroids ... Below is a table of information on selected asteroids, and at the bottom of the page are comments on the asteroids. All of the values for mass and many of the diameter values are only rough estimates.
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Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asteroids , sometimes called minor planets or planetoids , are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets but larger th...
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Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids. ... Several hundred thousand asteroids have been discovered and given provisional designations so far. Thousands more are discovered each year. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands more that are too small to be seen from the Earth.
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The big news this week is the impact on Jupiter that took place on July 19, 2009. This appears analogous to the 1994 impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, except that in this case the hit was from a single projectile. ... An International Planetary Defense Conference was held in Granada, Spain, on April 27-30, ... News in Brief...
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Asteroids are primoridal objects left over from the formation of the Solar System. While some have suggested that they are the remains of a protoplanet that was destroyed in a massive collision long ago, the prevailing view is that asteroids are leftover rocky matter that never successfully coalesced into a planet.
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Introduction to asteroids. ... Introduction Near-Earth Asteroids; (NEA) Asteroids and Dinosaurs List of Some Asteroids Composition Activities, Web Links ... Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects, most of which orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A few asteroids approach the Sun more closely.
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