- Asteroid - Wikipedia
An asteroid is a minor planet —an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet —that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids)
- Asteroids - Science@NASA
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4 6 billion years ago Most asteroids can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt
- Potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earths first real-life . . .
The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test
- NASA probe captures stunning photos of Earth and moon on the way to . . .
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis
- Asteroid | Definition, Size, Facts | Britannica
Asteroid, any of a host of small bodies, about 1,000 km (600 miles) or less in diameter, that orbit the Sun primarily between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in a nearly flat ring called the asteroid belt Hundreds of thousands of asteroids are known
- NASA Confirms Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid Is On Approach—What . . .
On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1 25 million miles of Earth Asteroid 2001 FO32 was classified as
- NASA warns of back-to-back asteroid approaches: What to expect and what . . .
An asteroid approach is simply the moment when a near-Earth object moves through a section of space that is relatively close to Earth’s orbital path, often noticed only by astronomers tracking
- Asteroid: Definition, Size, Difference, Visibility, Facts
An asteroid is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter Asteroids range in size from tiny pebbles to massive bodies hundreds of kilometers across, with the largest, Ceres, measuring approximately 946 kilometers (588 miles) in diameter
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