The brightest asteroid that has been discovered is called Vesta
An asteroid is known as a minor planet that orbits the sun. As of 2010 there have been 530,091 asteroids discovered.
An asteroid is a rocky object in space. It may be a broken part of a planet. The smallest observed asteroids are 10 meters in size . There may be many asteroids smaller than this but they can not be detected yet and also have not been observed yet.
The first large asteriod, Ceres, was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
Well I guess any asteroid could hit Earth.For a complete list of NEO - see related link .There are several hundred asteroids that could hit Earth, most of them have not been named, or even discovered yet.
Deneb has been known since ancient times and is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Its discovery cannot be attributed to a specific date or event as it has always been visible to observers in the northern hemisphere.
The discovery of Regulus is not attributed to a single individual, as it has been known and observed since ancient times. It is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and is visible to the naked eye.
The least brightest star has not yet been seen and so not identified.
Yes, but very few. Other galaxies are so VERY far away that only the brightest stars are visible from here. One such star, S Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was once thought to be the brightest star known in the entire universe; it has since been dethroned as several even brighter stars has been found. The brightest on the list so far is R136a1, discovered in 2010, also in the LMC.
No, if the Earth was destroyed by an asteroid we would not be living today.
1652 Edit : That seems unlikely. Arcturus is one of the brightest stars in the sky and it must have been seen as soon as people looked at the night sky, many thousands of years ago.
Alpha Arietis (Hamal), is the brightest star in the constellation Aries.Like all the other stars in the night sky, it has been visible since anything looked up and cannot therefore be said to be discovered by anyone.If anyone could be said to have "discovered" it, it would be the Arabs who's name it still bears.
Asteroid is a noun referring to small heavenly bodies revolving around the sun. Here are some sample sentences."Some of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter have been given names such as Ceres, while others have only a designation based on when they were discovered.""Asteroids are a possible source of materials that are rare on Earth."