Yes, asteroids orbit Sun, even meteors and comets. But generally, every pieces of asteroid doesn't have orbits, it has a zone. They bump each other until they form into a larger ones. If an asteroid got out of the zone it now move freely into space and crashes into a planet by gravity. Astronomers now detected a planet, or a dwarf planet, or still an asteroid itself, called Ceres
Some asteroids do cross earth's orbit, but most do not.
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Asteroids orbit the sun at several tens of thousands of miles per hour. The speed varies depending on the orbit.
There are two things that cause it which are the earths orbit and thetilt of the earths axis.
and Jupiter. There are lots of small bodies in direct orbit around the sun called the asteroids (the asteroid belt).
Tangent to orbit, north away, tangent to orbit, south away.
Asteroids orbit the Sun, and some of them can cross the Earth's orbit.
Yes. Asteroids orbit the sun.
No. Comets orbit the sun.
They both orbit the sun.
Asteroids orbit the sun. Moons orbit planets and planets orbit the sun. So you could say the moons orbit the sun. However, moons are kept in their orbits by the gravity of their planet and planets are kept in orbit by the gravity of the sun. So in that sense, moons do not orbit the sun.
Earths orbit around the sun is not unusual.
Main Belt asteroids -- a band of asteroids located in the "missing planet" gap between Mars and Jupiter. None of these are economically attractive in a near term program because they are too far from Earth.Amor asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits approach but do not cross Earth orbit, and whose orbits are further from the Sun than Earth's orbit (i.e., "outside-t" Earth orbit). Many have orbits which reside entirely between Earth and Mars. Some of these are economically attractive in the near term.Apollo asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Apollo asteroids spend most of their time outside Earth orbit. Many of these are economically attractive in the near term.Aten asteroids -- asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's orbit. Unlike Apollos, Atens spend most of their time inside Earth orbit. A large percentage of known Atens are economically attractive in the near term.
orbit
Yes, they does.
The asteroids
ASTEROIDS
Asteroids, Comets