ASTEROIDS AND ASTEROID BELTS

THREE TYPES

• Chondrites type
• Stony type
• Metallic type

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• Size: between 590 and .6 miles.
• It is found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
• 28 belts have been catalogued.
• They're detected by the SSDS telescope.
• They rotate around the sun.

They are special because they can hold answers to some of man kinds hardest questions. (such as how solar systems form.)

Definition:
The region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids are located.

Description:
The area in space between Mars and Jupiter where asteroids flow in a belt-like pattern, most asteroids are found here.

There is a belt between Mars and Jupiter because the gravity of newly formed Jupiter brought an end to the formation of planetary bodies in this region and cause the small bodies to collide with one another, fragmenting them into asteroids.

Scientists hope to learn on missions what material came from the solar nebula and learn more about Earth.

Ceres is the largest belt at 590 miles and almost became a planet. It is about 25 percent of the asteroids total mass and was discovered in 1801 by Guiseppe Piazzi.

Fun Facts:
- They're all made of different minerals/substances
- It was believed by many scientists than an asteroid impact was the cause behind the extinction of dinosaurs.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt
• https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.windows2universe.org%2Faster...