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The brightest asteroid that has been discovered is called Vesta
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How many asteroids has been discovered?
An asteroid is known as a minor planet that orbits the sun. As of 2010 there have been 530,091 asteroids discovered.
How small can a asteroid be?
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.
Has a human ever discovered an asteroid on earth?
Yes, there has been a lot of astroids that hit the earth. Most of them are small.
Can an asteroid be pure metal?
Yes. Such an asteroid must have been part of the core of a once larger asteroid. __________________________ No. Asteroids are natural; nothing natural is "pure". There are always other materials mixed in to native ore. If scientists discovered an object of a "pure" metal, they would know that it was artificial, that someone had made it. asteroid is one of our heavenly body
Which was discovered first Betelgeuse or Rigel?
Betelgeuse and Rigel are both in the top 10 brightest stars in the sky. They have been seen bright in the sky even since cavemen looked up. So, they were discovered about the same time.
Who discovered the first and largest asteroid?
The first large asteriod, Ceres, was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
What are the nearby asteroids that can hit the earth?
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.
Which star in Pisces is the least brightest?
The least brightest star has not yet been seen and so not identified.
Who named asteroids?
William Herschel invented the word "asteroid". Various people have named asteroids as they have been discovered.
Are there any stars that have been named that are outside the Milky Way galaxy?
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.
The earth been destroyed by a asteroid?
No, if the Earth was destroyed by an asteroid we would not be living today.
What is the first planet to be discovered using observed gravitational anomalies?
After Earth, it must have been Venus, because that's the brightest and it moves in an obvious way.
