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Is an asteroid a burnt out star?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

No. An asteroid is just a large chunk of rock. Stars are not rock, but balls of burning gas.

Asteroids are formed when planets/moons/larger asteroids collide and parts of the object go flying off into space.

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