Asteroids

Craters happen when meteorites impact on the Moon's surface.

Most of the craters on the Moon are billions of years old, the impacts were much more common during the early stages of the solar system's formation.

There are craters on the Earth's surface as well. They are just harder to see, because the surface of the Earth changes faster because we have an atmosphere and erosion.

Planetoids, or minor planets.

The element named after the asteroid Ceres, discovered in 1801 is Cerium. it is a grey metal, more abundant than tin or lead and almost as abundant as zinc. It is little used because it tarnishes easily, reacts with water and burns when heated. A little cerium is employed in alloys, special glass and ceramics, but the best known use is in flints for pocket lighters

The name of the material that shaters or brakes during impact is called sediment.

ceres, 2pallas, 3juno, 4vesta, 5astraea, 6hebe, 7iris, 8flora, 9metis, 10hygiea, 11parthenope, 12victoria, 13egeria, 14irene, 15eunomia, 28bellona, 35leukothea, 37fides, and Hektor. the numbers are part of their names.

The first large asteriod, Ceres, was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.

Dwarf planets are not asteroids. While both are similar in size and composition, dwarf planets are considered a distinct classification due to their spherical shape and ability to gravitationally clear their orbit of other debris. In contrast, asteroids are irregularly shaped and typically exist in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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Jupiter revolves around the Sun in a manner similar to the Earth, which is counter-clockwise as viewed from the arbitrary "north" or "above" the ecliptic plane.

Jupiter, however, is much farther out than Earth, with an elliptical orbit ranging from 740 to 816 million kilometers from the Sun. It takes about 11.86 Earth years to make one complete orbit.

The main asteroid belt is actually called the asteroid belt - pretty dull really.

All the sun's planets probably had similar atmospheres when they first formed, billions of years ago. The most common gases were the light gases, hydrogen and helium, with smaller amounts of oxygen, nitrogen and other gases.

The immense gravity of the giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, was able to hold the hydrogen and helium, which remain the predominant gases in their atmospheres, along with methane formed by the combination of hydrogen with free carbon. However, hydrogen and helium gradually escaped from the atmospheres of the smaller planets, where gravity is insufficient to hold the light gases permanently.

Even the heavier gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen, as well as carbon dioxide and water vapour, can gradually escape from smaller planets, such as Mars and Mercury. So, these planets now have quite thin atmospheres. The Moon and other small bodies in the solar system have essentially no atmosphere.

In our solar system, only the Earth and Venus are the right size to lose most of the light gases, while retaining gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapour.

The Earth has been hit by meteoroids numerous times, even in the last century. Consequences range from small craters to flattened forests to mass extinctions on a planetary scale. For more information, see links below.

its axis of rotation inclined 45 degrees to the plane of its orbit around the sun

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A metiorite. I believe what you're talking about is a meteoroid, not an asteroid. An asteroid is rather large, revolves around the sun, and when one hits the Earth, and a few have, it is disastrous. A meteoroid, on the other hand, is much smaller and when it hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up (due to the friction of the atmosphere) it is called a meteor. After it reaches the Earth's surface, it is called a meteorite. http://dictionary.infoplease.com/meteor merci, have a good day.

Many asteroids are in a loose distribution in orbit round the sun, (called the asteroid belt) some of them are in perturbed orbits due to them sometimes getting too close, some extremely so. Occasionally these,(sometimes not much more than odd bits of dust) intercept the earth's orbit just as the earth is passing by and fall to earth as "shooting stars". But if a really big one happened to get caught by the earth the result could be wide-scale destruction, and that would be called a rogue asteroid.

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Asteroids are called minor planets because they are celestial objects that orbit the sun just like planets do, but they are much smaller in size compared to planets. The term "minor" distinguishes them from the larger, more traditional planets in our solar system.

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The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in our solar system. It consists of millions of rocky objects that range in size from small pebbles to large asteroids.

The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Ceres can be calculated using Newton's law of gravitation: (g = \frac{G \times M}{R^2}), where (G) is the gravitational constant, (M) is the mass of Ceres, and (R) is the radius of Ceres. Plugging in the values gives (g ≈ 0.28 m/s^2).

Statistically none - or zero.

When an asteroid hits Earth - we know about it - or if it is large enough - we don't.

The last asteroid to "hit" Earth was about 3.3 million years ago and precedes numerous extinctions.

The asteroid belt is a vaguely elliptical band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This 'belt' contains different sizes of space rock and dust that is trapped in orbit between the two planets. The rocks within the belt tend to travel in loose clusters.

While collisions occur, the actual spacing between individual large asteroids can be measured in tens of thousands of kilometers. And while there may be more than a million asteroids over 1 km in diameter, their combined mass is only about twice that of the largest asteroid, the dwarf planet Ceres.