19 facts on asteroids that makes them interesting
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Once there came a huge cloud of dust and gases that formed various parts of our solar system like the Sun , planets Earth, Mars, Venus and all the other stuff.
But after all this there are some objects in lifted and they start orbiting the sun like planets and then these objects are known to be asteroids.
Our solar system is full of interesting things. One of them is an asteroid. You may ask- what may be interesting about asteroids?
But do you know that life is possible on Earth only because the collision of asteroids and comets have delivered water to us? Or do you know that they may also have a moon and may carry some precious things?
Isn’t these facts are interesting so, in this article we will read 19 interesting facts about the asteroid.
Facts on asteroids
As we know they are an interesting topic, so, let’s read 19 facts about the asteroids that make them interesting.
1.They not have even gravity to make their shape sphere
Do you know? What are most asteroids shaped like?
Almost all the asteroids in the solar system are irregularly shaped, except some largest ones ,such as Ceres which is almost spherical.
The reason behind why they are not spherical is that- their gravity is too weak to pull their shape into a circle, as a result they’re irregularly shaped.
They’re too tiny to even hold the atmosphere.
2.Asteroids are in a “belt”.
There are asteroids all over the Solar System, but yet there’s a huge collection of asteroids are in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The main asteroid belt holds nearly 200 asteroids larger than 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.
One of the interesting fact about the asteroid belt are-
According to some scientists it could have formed into a planet if Jupiter was not nearby.
Scientists alsl estimate that it contains between 1.1 million and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 km (3,281 feet) in diameter.
3. Asteroids may also have their own moon
We always think that only some large bodies may have their own moon but ,did you know that some small bodies may also have their own moon like asteroids?
The first that was discovered was Dactyl in 1993. It was orbiting around an asteroid named Ida.
Around 150 are there that have moons, some also have two moons.
4.Asteroids are fossils of our solar system
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