How are asteroids different from moon?

Answer 1

Asteroids are technicaly small planets. That in they orbit the sun. An asteroid can become a moon when it is caught by the gravitational pull of a planet and goes into orbit around that planet. Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos are likely candidates for this along with the moons of gas giants Jupiter, Saturn & Uranus as they have no real matter that could have been ejected into space to create a moon like earths moon (Theorised a large mars sized object hit our planet when it was still molten ejecting a blob that became our moon).

So to re-cap asteroids orbit the sun, Moons orbit planets.

Answer 2

Under the 2006 re-definition of a "planet" by the International Astronomical Union, dwarf planets are smaller planets that do not dominate (sweep clean) their respective orbits around the Sun. Asteroids are even smaller, basically rocks or agglomerations of rocks, ice, and dust that may be irregular in shape and share orbits with other asteroids. When a body is in a stable orbit around a planet, it is called a moon or moonlet.

Answer 3

Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects that orbit the Sun, while the Moon is Earth's natural satellite that orbits around Earth. The Moon is much larger than most asteroids and has a spherical shape, while asteroids can vary in size and shape. Moons have gravitational pull and reflect sunlight, while asteroids do not have these characteristics.

Answer 4

The asteroids are primarily iron. Pluto is suspected of being primarily ice and not just water ice.

Answer 5

They are basically like planets but are unfinished or was a planet that exploded