'Asteroid orbits' diaporamas de présentation

September 26, 2011: 10am Class

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Asteroids & Comets

Asteroids & Comets. Debris of the Solar System. Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects orbiting the Sun that are smaller than a major planet, but that show no evidence of an atmosphere and contain little volatile (easily evaporated) material

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Asteroids and Meteorites

Asteroids and Meteorites. Asteroid Facts. Asteroids are rocky leftovers of planet formation . Asteroids are cratered and not round. The largest is Ceres, diameter ~1000 kilometers. 150,000 in catalogs, and probably over a million with diameter >1 kilometer.

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Other objects in the Solar System

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Asteroids

Asteroids. Irregular (sometimes spherical) lumps of rock and metal that had never formed into planets during the formation of the solar system Several hundred thousand asteroids have been observed in the 10km to 100km size range, there maybe millions more of about 1km in size

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