Asteroids

No, the asteroid belt does not have a single axis like a planet or moon. It is a region of space between Mars and Jupiter where numerous asteroids orbit the Sun in a wide range of paths and inclinations.

Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Astronomers had long predicted that there would be a ninth planet inthe Solar System, which they called Planet X. Only 22 at the time, Tombaugh was given the laborious task of comparing photographic plates. These were two images of a region of the sky, taken two weeks apart. Any moving object, like an asteroid, comet or planet, would appear to jump from one photograph to the next.

After a year of observations, Tombaugh finally discovered an object in the right orbit, and declared that he had discovered Planet X. Because they had discovered it, the Lowell team were allowed to name it. They settled on Pluto, a name suggested by an 11-year old school girl in Oxford, England (no, it wasn't named after the Disney character, but the Roman god of the underworld).

The Solar System now had 9 planets.

Astronomers weren't sure about Pluto's mass until the discovery of its largest Moon, Charon, in 1978. And by knowing its mass (0.0021 Earths), they could more accurately gauge its size. The most accurate measurement currently gives the size of Pluto at 2,400 km (1,500 miles) across. Although this is small, Mercury is only 4,880 km (3,032 miles) across. Pluto is tiny, but it was considered larger than anything else past the orbit of Neptune.

Over the last few decades, powerful new ground and space-based observatories have completely changed previous understanding of the outer Solar System. Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a collection of objects called the Kuiper Belt. This region extends from the orbit of Neptune out to 55 astronomical units (55 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun).

Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70,000 icy objects, with the same composition as Pluto, that measure 100 km across or more in the Kuiper Belt. And according to the new rules, Pluto is not a planet. It's just another Kuiper Belt object.

Unless you are thinking of the movie Armageddon, the asteroid that was reported in the media with a size of Texas is Apophis.

However, as in most cases, the media managed to mislead the public, especially as the observed diameter is a mere 450 meters - much smaller than Texas, unless something has happen in the US that I'm not aware of!!!

It seems that the original reports were misleading because scientists reported that it would devastate an area the size of Texas a slight difference between the amount of "collateral" damage and the original size of the object.

Saturn isn't located in the asteroid belt. In the solar system, you have the sun, mercury, venus, earth, mars, the asteroid belt (separating terrestrial and jovian planets) then jupiter, saturn, uranus, and finally neptune. Pluto is not a planet.

No. A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System, while asteroids are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun; they are smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids.

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the Inner Solar System. However, between the orbital paths of Mars and Jupiter lie a region known as the asteroid belt. Many asteroids come from there, but most of them stay there.

Short-period comets originate from the Kuiper Belt, just outside the orbit of Neptune, while long-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud.

The lifespan of an asteroid can vary greatly depending on its size and orbit. Some asteroids may exist for millions or even billions of years, while others may break apart or collide with other objects in space relatively quickly.

Cerise is the planet located in the asteroid belt which the asteroid belt is dividing the

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Comets are typically larger than meteors because they are made up of a combination of ice, dust, and rocky material that can span several kilometers in diameter. Meteors, on the other hand, are small rocky or metallic fragments that originate from asteroids or comets and are typically only a few millimeters to a few meters in size.

Asteroids are hypothesized to have originated from the remnants of the early solar system, specifically from the protoplanetary disk of gas and dust that surrounded the young Sun. These leftovers eventually came together to form asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, as well as in other regions of the solar system.

The Oort Cloud has not been directly observed by astronomers, while both the Main Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt have been observed and studied. The Oort Cloud is a theoretical region of icy bodies beyond the Kuiper Belt, and its presence is inferred from the trajectories of some comets.

Mars' average distance from the sun is greater than Earth's

average distance, and less than the average distance of most

of the members of the asteroid belt.

So, the answer is YES.

Astroids have not been "created". Astroids are the remains of dead planets and stars that travel through space at speeds of up to 1 million kilometers an hour. Astroids have been around since planets and stars were created.

3.5 x 10^23. That's on the surface of the earth, which might be difficult to achieve, since if put there it could well alter what you might call the earth, and therefore what things weigh.

Mars and Venus. But the atmosphere of Venus is many many times denser.

Also, all of the outer planets have similar atmospheres. Jupiter and Saturn

are a very similar pair and Uranus and Neptune are also two that are very similar.

If you mean an earth year, then there are 365.

If you mean the time for an object in the asteroid belt to go around the sun,
it could be anything between 690 days and 11.8 earth years, depending on
exactly where you are between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

While we know that asteroids have hit the Earth in the distant past, they were never named. To the extent that we have names for them, they are named for the craters they create where they hit, such as the Chixulub event that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

do you mean asteroid?

an asteroid are the thousands of lumpy rocksthat circle around the sun in a large band between Mars and Jupiter. the biggest asteroid, Ceres is approx. 640km across. most asteroids are much much smaller. over 5000 asteroids have been identified by astronomers so far.

The asteroid that struck Sudan in 2008 is significant because it was the first time an asteroid was detected and tracked before impact. It exploded above the Nubian desert and created thousands of meteorites, with the fragments providing valuable scientific information about the composition of such objects.

Most of the asteroids within our solar system can be found within the Asteroid Belt. Located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the Asteroid Belt consists of millions of individual asteroids of varying sizes - from a speck of dust to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The largest object within the belt is a dwarf planet - Ceres - which has a mass of 9.47x1020kg and a diameter of 476.2km.

The asteroid belt is a region about a hundred million miles across, so there's no such thing as "a year on the asteroid belt". Any given asteroid in the core region of the belt could have an orbital period from a little under 3 up to nearly 6 years.

1 Ceres, for example, has an orbital period of a bit under 1682 days (4.6 years).

The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field depend on various factors, such as the density of the field, the size of the asteroids, and the skills of the pilot. In general, navigating an asteroid field is extremely challenging and dangerous due to the potential for collisions with the asteroids. It's often considered risky and should be avoided whenever possible.