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Is Earth located inside the asteroid belt?
No most of the asteroids are in the asteroid belt which is between Mars and Jupiter.
What are the names of the asteroids that cross Earth's orbit and Jupiter's orbit?
Main Belt asteroids -- a band of asteroids located in the "missing planet" gap between Mars and Jupiter. None of these are economically attractive in a near term program because they are too far from Earth.Amor asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits approach but do not cross Earth orbit, and whose orbits are further from the Sun than Earth's orbit (i.e., "outside-t" Earth orbit). Many have orbits which reside entirely between Earth and Mars. Some of these are economically attractive in the near term.Apollo asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Apollo asteroids spend most of their time outside Earth orbit. Many of these are economically attractive in the near term.Aten asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Unlike Apollos, Atens spend most of their time inside Earth orbit. A large percentage of known Atens are economically attractive in the near term.
Why does asteroids hit earth?
Asteroids will hit earth every now and then because of the earths gravitational pull, but we don't get as much as Jupiter seeing as it has the highest gravitation pull.
Where are the Apollo asteroids located?
Almost all of them are located in the "asteroid belt", this is a region between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are many asteroids all over the solar system in their own orbit around the Sun. The third law of planetary motion published by Kepler in 1619 captures the relationship between the distance of planets from the Sun, and their orbital periods. This supports a common notion among scientists that there was a planet between mars an Jupiter that was either not formed or disintegrated. These "stones" are the asteroids Joseph Muchoki
When did asteroids hit Jupiter?
The Minor Planet center has cataloged 279,722 minor planets which are asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets. Considering asteroids and comets are in some ways related bodies in the fact that they do not have hydrostatic equilibrium; we only have to subtract the four dwarf planets leaving us with 279,718 asteroids and comets discovered so far.
Are most asteroids are distributed between Earth and Mars?
No. Most asteroids are in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Which is closer to the sun asteroids or earth?
There are some asteroids that are closer to the sun than the Earth, but most are further out, with the main concentration between Mars and Jupiter.
Are asteroids more closer to earth or mars?
Mars, the asteroid belt is in between Mars and Jupiter.
Is Earth located inside the asteroid belt?
No most of the asteroids are in the asteroid belt which is between Mars and Jupiter.
What are the names of the asteroids that cross Earth's orbit and Jupiter's orbit?
Main Belt asteroids -- a band of asteroids located in the "missing planet" gap between Mars and Jupiter. None of these are economically attractive in a near term program because they are too far from Earth.Amor asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits approach but do not cross Earth orbit, and whose orbits are further from the Sun than Earth's orbit (i.e., "outside-t" Earth orbit). Many have orbits which reside entirely between Earth and Mars. Some of these are economically attractive in the near term.Apollo asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Apollo asteroids spend most of their time outside Earth orbit. Many of these are economically attractive in the near term.Aten asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Unlike Apollos, Atens spend most of their time inside Earth orbit. A large percentage of known Atens are economically attractive in the near term.
Why does asteroids hit earth?
Asteroids will hit earth every now and then because of the earths gravitational pull, but we don't get as much as Jupiter seeing as it has the highest gravitation pull.
Where are the Apollo asteroids located?
Almost all of them are located in the "asteroid belt", this is a region between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are many asteroids all over the solar system in their own orbit around the Sun. The third law of planetary motion published by Kepler in 1619 captures the relationship between the distance of planets from the Sun, and their orbital periods. This supports a common notion among scientists that there was a planet between mars an Jupiter that was either not formed or disintegrated. These "stones" are the asteroids Joseph Muchoki
Where do Asteroids exists?
Throughout the solar system. We think of the "asteroid belt" as a roughly toroidal (doughnut-shaped) region of space between Mars and Jupiter, but in fact there are asteroids close to Earth, in between Earth and Venus, and in closer to the Sun than Venus is. We don't have a good reckoning as to how many asteroids are out beyond Jupiter; most asteroids are too small to be seen, that far away. But we can be confident that there are quite a few! Beyond the orbit of Neptune, we no longer call them "asteroids"; they are referred to as "Trans-Neptunian Objects" or even further out, "Kuiper Belt Objects". But they are merely asteroids by another name.
What are The nine major celestial bodies that orbits the sun?
saturn earth jupiter pluto
When did asteroids hit Jupiter?
The Minor Planet center has cataloged 279,722 minor planets which are asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets. Considering asteroids and comets are in some ways related bodies in the fact that they do not have hydrostatic equilibrium; we only have to subtract the four dwarf planets leaving us with 279,718 asteroids and comets discovered so far.
Where are Asteroids are found mainly between?
Asteroids mainly orbit between Mars and Jupiter, though some, called NEOs (Near Earth Objects) orbit the sun in eccentric orbits, some even crossing the Earth's orbit. There is also the Kuyper Belt, which starts around Neptune and continues well past Pluto's orbit, and the Oort Cloud, which we think extends as far as 1/2 to 1 light year from the sun. Both are repositories for both comets and asteroids.
Typically orbit the sun at approximately 3 au?
Not much. Earth is at 1 AU, by definition, and Mars is at about 1.5 AU. Between Mars and Jupiter (about 5 AU) there are no large planets; it is thought that Jupiter's gravity interfered with planets forming near it. Instead, there are billions of asteroids, which are of similar chemical makeup to the inner planets (i.e. mostly rocks and metals), but much smaller, ranging from smaller than a sand grain to the size of U.S. states. We have observed several thousand of the larger ones; these are irregularly-shaped rocky things the size of cities. The largest, Ceres, is almost 600 miles across and orbits between 2.54 and 2.98 AU. So, I suppose I could say that Ceres is at 3 AU, once every 4.5 (Earth) years. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet) for more about Ceres.
