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Is an asteroid a rock?
Most asteroids are rocky, but some are metallic.
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.
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.
The relatively small rocky bodies generally found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are known as?
Asteroids
What are differences of comets meteoroid's asteroids?
Comets : mostly ice & are often in very distant elliptical orbits. Meteoroids and asteroids are usually rocky and/or metallic, asteroids are found in the asteroid belt (between Mars & Jupiter).
Where were most asteroids found?
the asteroid belt
Are most comets found in either Oort cloud or the asteroid belt?
Rocky asteroids. Icy comets often live in and come from the Kuiper Belt.
What causes craters on rocky planets?
Most of the time these are asteroids that connect with the planets at high rates of speed.
How are moon and asteroids alike and different?
Both asteroids and moons can be rocky. An asteroid orbits the Sun while a moon orbits a planet. Mars has two moons (Deimos and Phobos) that are most likely former asteroids.
What is asteroid belt made of?
Iron and rocky asteroids.
Are asteroid composed?
Asteroids (star-like) are rocky.
What are the rocky bodies that orbit between the inner and outer planets?
These rocky bodies are called "Asteroids".
