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What is the difference from an asteroid to a dwarf planet?
A dwarf planet is a body that orbits the sun - is often beyond the orbit of Jupiter and is classified below a planet. An asteroid is a body that orbits the sun within the asteroid belt.
What is the largest object in the asteroid belt?
The largest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres at about 580 miles across. It is classified as a dwarf planet rather than an asteroid.
How is a dwarf planet different from an asteroid?
A dwarf planet is a celestial body that orbits the Sun and has enough mass for its gravity to form it into a spherical shape, but has not cleared its orbit of other debris. An asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits the Sun, typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and does not have enough mass to be considered a dwarf planet.
Is the planet Uranus located inside the asteroid belt or inside the asteroid belt?
Uranus is located outside the asteroid belt, further away from the Sun than the asteroid belt. It is the seventh planet from the Sun in our solar system.
Is Ceres a planet if not what is it?
Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet [See related question] it is the largest asteroid and only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt [See related question]
How are asteroids different to planets?
An asteroid is a rock that is far smaller than a planet or dwarf planet. They have no atmosphere. They may circle a sun or a planet.
How is a asteroid different then a planet?
aplanet is big but an astreroids move very fast in space
Can an asteroid be a planet?
NO.
Was there ever a planet in the Asteroid belt?
No planet ever existed where the asteroid belt is. The mass is insufficient for a planet to have formed from all that debris.
Where is the asteroid belt in the planet Jupiter?
The asteroid belt is not in Jupiter.
Is the asteroid belt a gas or a solid?
the asteroid planet is solid
What is Jupiter next too?
The Planet Jupiter is between the planet Saturn and the asteroid belt. On the other side of the asteroid belt is the planet Mars.
Is planet Biyo considered the tenth planet?
No. "Planet" Biyo is not a planet but an asteroid.
Is an asteroid an exploded planet?
no
What is the difference from an asteroid to a dwarf planet?
A dwarf planet is a body that orbits the sun - is often beyond the orbit of Jupiter and is classified below a planet. An asteroid is a body that orbits the sun within the asteroid belt.
Is a asteroid belt a terrestrial planet?
No. The asteroid belt is an area where there are more asteroids than in other parts of the solar system It is not a planet, nor is there enough mass in the asteroid belt to form a whole planet.
Is an asteroid a planet?
no, but it was once called a planet before
