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- 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 . . .
The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test
- NASA Confirms Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid Is On . . .
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
- 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
- Space gum and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples . . .
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say
- NASA probe captures stunning photos of Earth and moon on the . . .
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
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