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Neither term has an actual defined size requirement, so in a sense the question is meaningless.

However, there are some asteroids which are larger than some moons. Many asteroids are quite a bit larger than Deimos and Phobos (the moons of Mars), for example.

No known asteroid (or minor planet either, if you want to get technical regarding bodies like Ceres and possibly Vesta) is as large as Earth's moon. If the Moon were in the asteroid belt instead of orbiting Earth, it would be considered a new "minor planet" (and would, in fact, be the largest such body known; the mass of the Moon exceeds the combined mass of all bodies in the asteroid belt by a considerable amount).

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