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8/22/18
Period 6
Asteroid
Asteroid
1 Is a rocky or metallic object smaller than a planet that orbits a
Most asteroids orbit the sun between the orbits of Mars and
People sometimes call the asteroids minor planets. That term has
volcanic activity have altered the planets and moons. But much
largest asteroids are Pallas and Vista. Each stretches slightly over
based telescopes.
Occasionally, a large asteroid will break apart into many smaller
pull tends to press its mass into a ball. The largest asteroids,
gravitational pulls that are too weak to greatly alter their shapes.
The Main Belt asteroid Cleopatra, for example, has a “dog bone”
C-type asteroids
3 Make up about 75 percent
S-type asteroids
M-type asteroids
Other asteroid types are relatively rare. One such group, the D-
type asteroids, occurs more frequently in the outer solar system.