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An asteroid is a rock made of silicon, nickel, iron, or carbon, and revolves around the Sun. Asteroids are found throughout the solar system but many are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Some may be formed by breaking off from a moon or comet.

The name comes from the Latin for "little starlike object", tiny glowing things in the sky. An asteroid is actually more like a small planet : rocks that are big enough to reflect enough light to be seen, but not big enough to be a proper planet. The largest of the asteroids is Ceres, which was promoted to "dwarf planet" at the same time that Pluto was downgraded to that status.

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