Scientists may not have named all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt because there are so many that they are hard to keep track of.
the main way scientist find new asteroids is through imaging them. They bring telescopes' large reflectors to a location in an area where they think the planet will be. They take an image, and then, from a couple minutes to a couple weeks later, they take another image of the same spot. anything that moves from each slide, they will check to see if it is an already existing and known object, or a man-made object, or fake. If the object is real, they will take several follow-up pictures to learn more about the asteroid's speed/trajectory/distance from the sun. the asteroid has been assigned a classification number once it has been proven to exist. once the orbital/physical mechanics of the asteroid have been discovered, the asteroid will be named. The namer may name the asteroid (only if it is a minor body) whatever they want, from xyyxxxxyyyzzz to blue purple-greenscreen. If the asteroid is large, it will be named according to what part of the solar system it resides in.
asteroids are NOT round they are bumpy and do not form a perfect sphere. One of the criterias of a planet is it has to be perfectly round
ceres, 2pallas, 3juno, 4vesta, 5astraea, 6hebe, 7iris, 8flora, 9metis, 10hygiea, 11parthenope, 12victoria, 13egeria, 14irene, 15eunomia, 28bellona, 35leukothea, 37fides, and Hektor. the numbers are part of their names.
The largest collection of asteroids is found orbiting the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. The asteroids are like cars on the highway, except that they are thousands of miles apart on the average. Even so, sometimes the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is disturbed by the gravitational pull of a planet, or is involved in a collision, it can be thrown out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon. Some of Jupiter's many small moons were likely once asteroids.
An asteroid is a rocky object in space that's not as big as a planet and isn't a moon. There are millions of them, think the asteroid belt in space. A meteor is an asteroid that burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, think shooting stars. A meteorite is a meteor that actually lands on the surface of Earth, think about Russia today. As for a meteoroid? No one really knows. They're just kind of like smaller asteroids.
I think you will find that asteroids do not have moons.
Some people think the dinosaurs died when an asteroid hit the earth.
the main way scientist find new asteroids is through imaging them. They bring telescopes' large reflectors to a location in an area where they think the planet will be. They take an image, and then, from a couple minutes to a couple weeks later, they take another image of the same spot. anything that moves from each slide, they will check to see if it is an already existing and known object, or a man-made object, or fake. If the object is real, they will take several follow-up pictures to learn more about the asteroid's speed/trajectory/distance from the sun. the asteroid has been assigned a classification number once it has been proven to exist. once the orbital/physical mechanics of the asteroid have been discovered, the asteroid will be named. The namer may name the asteroid (only if it is a minor body) whatever they want, from xyyxxxxyyyzzz to blue purple-greenscreen. If the asteroid is large, it will be named according to what part of the solar system it resides in.
asteroids are NOT round they are bumpy and do not form a perfect sphere. One of the criterias of a planet is it has to be perfectly round
They believed that they are left over rock from the Big Bang Theory
ceres, 2pallas, 3juno, 4vesta, 5astraea, 6hebe, 7iris, 8flora, 9metis, 10hygiea, 11parthenope, 12victoria, 13egeria, 14irene, 15eunomia, 28bellona, 35leukothea, 37fides, and Hektor. the numbers are part of their names.
The largest collection of asteroids is found orbiting the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. The asteroids are like cars on the highway, except that they are thousands of miles apart on the average. Even so, sometimes the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is disturbed by the gravitational pull of a planet, or is involved in a collision, it can be thrown out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon. Some of Jupiter's many small moons were likely once asteroids.
The largest collection of asteroids is found orbiting the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. The asteroids are like cars on the highway, except that they are thousands of miles apart on the average. Even so, sometimes the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is disturbed by the gravitational pull of a planet, or is involved in a collision, it can be thrown out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon. Some of Jupiter's many small moons were likely once asteroids.
An asteroid is a rocky object in space that's not as big as a planet and isn't a moon. There are millions of them, think the asteroid belt in space. A meteor is an asteroid that burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, think shooting stars. A meteorite is a meteor that actually lands on the surface of Earth, think about Russia today. As for a meteoroid? No one really knows. They're just kind of like smaller asteroids.
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Scientists think that the asteroid belt is a group of planetesimals (solid objects) that are caught between the gravity of Jupiter and the Sun.
A gap is located at an average orbital distance, and asteroid orbits often have large eccentricities. Edit: These are the "Kirkwood gaps" and they are caused by the effect of Jupiter's gravity on the asteroids. I've not deleted the previous answer, but I don't think it helps much. The gaps are in the distribution of the values of the semi-major axes of the orbits of asteroids rather than particular places in space. So orbital eccentricities can't be the explanation. I think it's simply because asteroids stray into the Kirkwood gaps under various gravitational forces. But these orbits are not stable and asteroids will tend to be cleared away again, eventually.