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The image above is a false color view of the asteroid 951 Gaspra taken by the Galileo spacecraft.

Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids. ... Asteroid table ... The largest asteroid by far is 1 Ceres. It is 974 km in diameter and contains about 25% of the mass of all the

The big news this week is the impact on Jupiter that took place on July 19, 2009. This appears analogous to the 1994 impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, ... Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards title

NASA ; Larger image; Stoney asteroid ; 243 Ida and its satellite ; Dactyl (more ; information and orbit). ... As dark as soot, carbonaceous asteroid 253; Mathilde is rich in carbon compounds

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Asteroids, also called minor planets or planetoids, are a class of astronomical object. ... The vast majority of asteroids are found within the main asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those

Asteroids are in fact miniature planets in our own Solar System. ... Sometimes an asteroid, just like the Earth, can have it's own satellite circling it. These are known as binary asteroids.

Britannica online encyclopedia article on asteroid (astronomy), any of a host of rocky small bodies, about 1,000 km (600 miles) or less in diameter, that orbit the Sun primarily between the orbits of ...

SCHEDULE: NEAT observations are in progress at MSSS. NEAT observations at Palomar are scheduled to occur in the pre-new Moon periods. ... ASTEROID POPULATION