What is an asteroid? NASA explains

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What is an asteroid?

Asteroids are small, rocky bodies that orbit the Sun

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Where did asteroids come from?

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Old astronomers studied the nihght sky,mapping everything they saw.Giuseppe piazzi found the first and largest asteroid in 1801 and named it"Ceres"

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Are all asteroids the same?

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Asteroids formed at different locations at different distances from the Sun are not identical. Here are some ways they differ

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What can we learn from asteroids?

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These space rocks have given scientists a lot of information about the history of the planets and the Sun

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The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on a near-Earth asteroid called Eros in 2001

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