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The largest asteroid is Ceres, with a diameter of 950 km (590 Miles). It is classified as a dwarf planet, the only one not orbiting in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.
The largest that is only called an asteroid is Pallas, although the third-largest asteroid, Vesta, is denser and therefore more massive. Pallas is about 544 km in diameter while Vesta is more oblate with a mean diameter of about 535 km.
About 1000 km across.
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∙ 13y agoThe asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is about 180 million kilometers (111 million miles) wide.
It varies between 387 million km and 489 million km from the Sun.
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∙ 13y agoThe asteroid belt as a whole is spread over a huge space, much bigger than the earth, yet its mass is only around 3.0×1021 to 3.6×1021 kilograms, which is just 4% of the Moons mass. The biggest asteroid is a dwarf planet called Ceres, which is about 974km in diameter.
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∙ 15y agovery big because it is almost 100 times the size of the earth. And also technically if you consider the fact that some astroids are as big as whole continents.
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∙ 8y agoCompared to objects such as planets and stars, yes. On a human scale they can be quite large. Some can be severla hundred feet to several hundred miles across.
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∙ 13y agoPlanet X is fake, it does not exist.
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∙ 13y agoid10t figue it out
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An asteroid can best be described as what?
An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun, typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are remnants from the early formation of the solar system and can vary in size from small boulders to objects several hundred kilometers in diameter.
What is the difference between an asteroid meteorin our solar system?
The difference between asteroid and meteorite is basically the size. Anything more than about 10 m in diameter is called an asteroid.
Whats the length of an Atroid Belt?
The langth of an asteroid Belt is the size of the Hippo
What body in the solar system is the most numerous?
The most numerous bodies in the solar system are asteroids. There are estimated to be millions of them, with most of them located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They vary in size from small rocks to large bodies several hundred kilometers in diameter.
Is a asteroid apart of the solar system?
Yes. The asteroid belt - is a region of space that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It's believed the region used to be an early planet - which was struck by something large enough to fragment the planet into billions of pieces - ranging in size from a grain of sand - to a small island.
Is the asteroid belt included in your Solar System?
Yes, the asteroid belt orbits between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are rocky bodies varying from many miles in size to small rocks, orbiting the Sun.
Where is the Kuiper Belt and what type of bodies are located there?
Kuiper Belt is the remotest and the farthest part of our solar system, starting from the orbit of Neptune. It is much like the asteroid belt, but is 20-200 times heavier. It contains, mostly the remnants of the solar system formation. It also has asteroids of large size, comets and cooled gases.
An asteroid can best be described as what?
An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun, typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are remnants from the early formation of the solar system and can vary in size from small boulders to objects several hundred kilometers in diameter.
What is the difference between an asteroid meteorin our solar system?
The difference between asteroid and meteorite is basically the size. Anything more than about 10 m in diameter is called an asteroid.
What are the large rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter called?
Asteroids ("star like things") better name Planetoids ("planet like things"). Bits of the rocky parts of the early Solar System that didn't get to form into one planet, presumably due to the perturbations of Jupiter's gravity. They lie in a harmonic zone where a planet should be, but the largest of them, Ceres, is only about the size of Texas.
What is the definition of an asteroid?
An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun. They are remnants from the early formation of our solar system and are primarily found in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. They vary in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers in diameter.
Size of asteroid belt?
93 million miles
What is the diffidence between a comet and an asteroid?
A comet is made of ice and dust, while an asteroid is a space rock. Asteroids travel in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Comets fly around our solar system. Asteroids can be from the size of a pebble to 640 miles across, while comets are usually only a few miles across.
Whats the length of an Atroid Belt?
The langth of an asteroid Belt is the size of the Hippo
What body in the solar system is the most numerous?
The most numerous bodies in the solar system are asteroids. There are estimated to be millions of them, with most of them located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They vary in size from small rocks to large bodies several hundred kilometers in diameter.
Is a asteroid apart of the solar system?
Yes. The asteroid belt - is a region of space that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It's believed the region used to be an early planet - which was struck by something large enough to fragment the planet into billions of pieces - ranging in size from a grain of sand - to a small island.
Is it true a asteroid can be as big as sand grains?
There are sand-sized rock fragments in the solar system, but when they get to that size they are not considered asteroids. They are called meteoroids.
