Asteroids

Yes, the Earth has been hit by asteroids in the past. These impacts have been responsible for mass extinction events and have left large impact craters on the Earth's surface. Fortunately, the likelihood of a large asteroid impact in the near future is low due to monitoring and detection efforts.

In 2001, the NEAR-Shoemaker space probe became the first unmanned probe to soft-land on an asteroid, although it was primarily designed to do its studies from orbit.

Launched in 1996, it orbited the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros for about a year, and in February 2001 used the last of its propellant to soft-land on the asteroid. Since it was undamaged, it continued to perform surface studies until it was shut down, about two weeks later.

Jupiter's massive gravitational force, (along with Mars lesser gravitional force) prevented the asteroid belt from forming into a planet. Either that or it was a small planet (like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) that was smashed to bits after a collision with a very large object and the bits eventually formed into the asteroid belt.

The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The four processes that change the surface of terrestrial planets - impact cratering, volcanism, tectonism, and erosion - can also affect the surfaces of asteroids. Asteroids can experience impacts that create craters, volcanic activity that reshapes their surfaces, tectonic movements that alter their terrain, and erosion processes that break down their surface materials. However, the intensity and frequency of these processes may vary due to the smaller size and different compositions of asteroids compared to terrestrial planets.

In the short term, say, the next 100 years, we should worry much more about nuclear weapons. It is possible, but not very likely, that an asteroid will destroy mankind, or even cause serious damage, in the next 100 years.

The planet Mars orbits immediately closer to the Sun than the Asteroid Belt. The so-called "main belt" has many millions of asteroids, the remnants of a failed planetoid that might have formed between Mars and Jupiter.
Mars. The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Astronomers study the radioactive decay of elements within meteorites that come from asteroids. By analyzing the ratios of isotopes within these meteorites, scientists can measure the time since the Solar System formed, providing an estimate of its age. This approach helps to establish a timeline of the early events in our Solar System's history.

No, the asteroid belt is located within our solar system. It is a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where many small rocky bodies, known as asteroids, orbit the Sun.

The asteroid belt in our galaxy is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This region is known as the Main Asteroid Belt and contains a large number of rocky bodies of various sizes orbiting the Sun.

An asteroid hits a planet when its trajectory brings it into the gravitational field of the planet, causing it to be pulled towards the planet's surface. The impact occurs when the asteroid collides with the planet's atmosphere and surface due to the planet's gravitational pull.

No, asteroids and comets are classified based on their characteristics and composition. Asteroids are rocky and metallic bodies that orbit the Sun, while comets are icy bodies that develop a fuzzy atmosphere and tail when they get close to the Sun. While some objects can exhibit characteristics of both, they are still considered either an asteroid or a comet based on their main features.

The Asteroid Belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. "Asteroid" means "star-like object," and that is what they appear like when viewed through a telescope. But of course, they are not anything like stars. "Minor Planet" is the more appropriate alternate name, as they do orbit the sun, much like the other planets. They vary in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. Ceres, the largest minor planet, and the first to be discovered (by Giuseppe Piazzi, in 1801), is spherical and 940 km in diameter. Smaller minor planets are irregular in shape. Here is a list of the 20 largest minor planets (The first number shows the order in which they were discovered)

Yes, a meteoroid is a small rock or metal fragment that has broken off from a larger asteroid or other interplanetary material. When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up, it creates a streak of light known as a meteor.

The asteroid movement is like comets, as they c0ome closer to the sun, the speed of their revolution increases and the gravitational pull also adds up.

The scale of damage potentially caused by an asteroid or comet impacting Earth is known as the Torino Scale. It is used to communicate the potential threat level of near-Earth objects (NEOs) impacting our planet.

Definitely not the Discovery Channel as some have said. It's probably a cool graphic animation school project or something not a scientific simulation. Riddled with errors from the opening scene of an asteroid that seems have a lava covered crust to the grammatical errors on the last scene it is completely false.

It contains lumps of rock and metal much smaller than planets. These lumps are called asteroids or minor planets. They are not visible from Earth with the naked eye, but many may be seen through binoculars or small telescopes

No, the total mass of all chemical reactions remains constant and is equal to the total mass of the reactants. This is known as the principle of conservation of mass in chemistry. Any perceived changes in mass during a chemical reaction are due to the rearrangement of atoms, not a loss or gain of mass.

The second asteroid named after Elicott Douglass is 6052 Icarion.

Stone meteorites are formed from the solidification of molten rock within asteroids. Iron meteorites are likely remnants of the metallic cores of differentiated asteroids. Carbonaceous chondrite asteroids are primitive bodies that have preserved materials from the early solar system due to minimal heating and alteration processes.

The asteroid belt is a region of space between Mars and Jupiter that contains numerous small rocky bodies called asteroids. It is located in our solar system, orbiting the Sun at a distance ranging from about 2.1 to 3.3 astronomical units (AU) from Earth.

Well ceres is actually made of iron and metal and nickel that is what most asteroids are made of

One theory is that the gravitational influence of Jupiter prevented the asteroids in the asteroid belt from merging to form a planet. Jupiter's strong gravitational pull disrupted the formation process by stirring up the asteroids' orbits, making it difficult for them to coalesce into a larger body. Additionally, the asteroids in the asteroid belt may have had too much relative velocity to effectively merge.