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What are the rocky bodies that orbit between the inner and outer planets?
These rocky bodies are called "Asteroids".
Is a rock in space called comets or asteroids?
Asteroids are rocky or metallic. Comets are made mostly of various types of ice, although they also contain some amount of dust and rock mixed in. A rock in space might also be a meteor.
How do comets meteorites and asteroids differ?
Meteorite is found on the surface of the planet, Comets are also known as dirty snowballs, Asteroids are small rocky bodies.
What are the components of asteroids?
Asteroids are mostly composed of rocky fragments and of metals like iron and nickel;the same metals that are theorized to make up Earth's core.
Most meteorites collected on Earth are of the rocky primitive variety although most asteroids are of the carbon-rich variety?
Most meteorites are rocky and primitive.
What are the rocky bodies that orbit between the inner and outer planets?
These rocky bodies are called "Asteroids".
What are small rocky bodies that revolve around the sun are called?
Meteorites
What are the rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be called planets?
Asteroids.
What is asteroid belt made of?
Iron and rocky asteroids.
Are asteroid composed?
Asteroids (star-like) are rocky.
What are small rocky bodies that resolve around the sun called?
Meteorites if smaller than about 10 meters; otherwise asteroids or planetoids.
Is an asteroid a rock?
Most asteroids are rocky, but some are metallic.
What are small rocky objects that revolve around the sun?
asteroids
What small rocky object that revolves around the sun?
asteroids
What is a small rocky body orbiting the sun?
Asteroids are the rocky bodies that have been compared to flying mountains. Asteroids are actually considered to be minor planets.
What is a big rocky object that orbits the sun?
Asteroids, meteors, etc.
What is between Mars and Jupiter that has a belt of small rocky objects?
Asteroids
