Topic: Another Name for Asteroids
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What is another name for an asteroid?
Most asteroids are, not surprisingly called asteroid's. However some of the larger ones are refereed to as dwarf planets (Ceres) others planetoids or minor planets. Read More »
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What is another word for small asteroid?
Anything smaller than ten meters across that orbits around the sun is usually refereed to as a meteoroid. Read More »
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How is a meteorite a comet and an asteroid different from one ano...
A comet has been described as a "dirty snowball"; a collection of rocks and dust, held together with various ices; methane ice, water ice, carbon dioxide or "dry" ice, and many others. It spends most of its time in deep space, far from the ... Read More »
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Asteroids are sometimes called minor planets or planetoids. So from your answer options, the letter D, is the correct selection.
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The gravitational perturbations of nearby Jupiter make it an unstable part of the solar system. Most of the asteroids wouldn't be there anyway if not for Jupiter because it acts like a shepard keeping them in confined in the belt, but not l...
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Chance is zero. And there are two reasons for that: 1- Jupiter's gravity would prevent asteroids from ever clumping together 2- even if one would "manually" gather all asteroid to force them to coalesce, there is not enough mass in there to...
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Statistically, we are way overdue, to be honest. The thing is, Jupiter gets hit because it's so big and has so much gravity. The reason we do not get hit more often is because Jupiter takes the blows for us. As of now, the most likely (know...
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Because when he fired up the engines and shot out of the worm the Imperials locked onto his signature again. By then he had lost the element of surprise and the fleet was all over the asteroid field not just him racing away from the leading...
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"It's happened before?" There is no evidence at all that any celestial body has ever destroyed 100% of life on Earth in the past. Mass entinctions happen, and have happened, and at least one contributor to one of those events was an asteroi...
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The one that hit Tunguska, Russia in 1908 is around 60m across but it was never able to reach the ground. It exploded at 5-10km mid-air. However the explosion was still able to devastate around 2100km^2 of around 80 million trees. Asteroids...
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