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Over 100,000 have been found. However, it is estimated that there are over a million.
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Are there more asteroids or stars?
If you mean asteroids within our Solar System, then stars. In the Universe, there will be many more asteroids than stars.
How many large asteroids are in the solar system?
Define "large". But there are many - thousands if not millions.
Besides planets what is in the solar system?
The solar system houses the asteroid belt and the sun, and the outer solar system contains many comets and asteroids, some of them larger than Pluto.
How many planets in your solar system revolve around the sun?
In our solar system, eight known planets revolve or orbit around the Sun (as do a lot of other objects, dwarf or minor planets, asteroids, comets, and so forth).
Where do asteroids and comets come from?
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the Inner Solar System. However, between the orbital paths of Mars and Jupiter lie a region known as the asteroid belt. Many asteroids come from there, but most of them stay there. Short-period comets originate from the Kuiper Belt, just outside the orbit of Neptune, while long-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud.
Are there more asteroids or stars?
If you mean asteroids within our Solar System, then stars. In the Universe, there will be many more asteroids than stars.
How many large asteroids are in the solar system?
Define "large". But there are many - thousands if not millions.
How many asteroids do scientist believes exist in the solar system?
one million
Besides planets what is in the solar system?
The solar system houses the asteroid belt and the sun, and the outer solar system contains many comets and asteroids, some of them larger than Pluto.
How many asteroids are believed to exist in our solar system?
The number of asteroids cannot be counted. It is like counting the number of grains of sand on a beach.
Where is the location of the asteroids?
There are three main clusterings of asteroids in our solar system: the Asteroid Belt, the first one identified, which is composed mostly of rocky asteroids, the Kuiper Belt, which contains several dwarf planets, and many icy asteroids, and the Oort Cloud, a theoretical halo of sorts surrounding our solar system, comprised mainly of comets and icy asteroids.
Are there thirty moons in our solar system?
No. There are more than that. There are currently 173 known moons orbiting planets in our solar system and many more orbiting dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets.
What in the solar system is closer to Jupiter than Mars?
The asteroid belt (many of Jupiter's smaller moons are captured asteroids).
How could you describe the Solar System?
Many planets, mini-planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids circling around the sun.
What comprises the solar system?
Our solar system is made of the planets, the sun(which is our star), asteroids, moons, comets. In our Solar System we also have the planets, Mercury, Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus and Neptune.
How many asterods are in our solar system?
There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the Solar System, most of which orbit the Sun beyond Mars, but within Jupiter's orbit. By the way . . . since there is only one Solar System (Named from "Sol", our sun/star's name) you needn't say, "Our . . . "
Why are asteroids as old as the solar system?
Many asteroids could safely be considered as old as the solar system since many would have formed from the same protoplanetary disk that formed the planets and the remainder of the system. Matter in the solar system is believed to have coalesced from gas and dust in the original disk; some of the smaller objects at that time could further coalesce into larger bodies such as the planets. Note however that some asteroids were formed from collisions of other bodies and could thus have an age of formation that would make them "younger."
