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In 1802, shortly after discovering Pallas, Heinrich Olbers suggested to William Herschel that Ceres and Pallas were fragments of a much larger planet that once occupied the Mars-Jupiter region, this planet having suffered an internal explosion or a cometary impact many million years before.
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∙ 13y agoThe asteroids in our solar system originated billions of years ago. When the Sun first formed, it was surrounded by a cloud of debris. Over hundreds of millions of years, this debris clumped together into asteroids and comets (which clumped together and formed the planets). The asteroids and comets that exist today are simply the few that didn't collide with the planets.
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∙ 14y agoTHey come from the asteroid belt
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How do meteors get knocked out of the asteroid belt?
There are collisions between asteroids, which can knock asteroids and asteroid fragments into different orbits. Some asteroids may not have originated in the asteroid belt.
Where are asteroids hypothesized to have originated?
In the asteroid belt, as well as in the rings of some of the gas giants.
What do comets and asteroids not have in common?
Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids
Are asteroids luminous?
No. Asteroids are just made of rock and metal. They do not glow.
What is the eccentricity of asteroids?
it is how circular and asteroids orbit path is.
How do meteors get knocked out of the asteroid belt?
There are collisions between asteroids, which can knock asteroids and asteroid fragments into different orbits. Some asteroids may not have originated in the asteroid belt.
When do scientist think the asteroids originated?
They believed that they are left over rock from the Big Bang Theory
Is it true that Deimos and Phobos are believed to be asteroids from the belt between Mars and Jupiter pulled by Mars' gravity?
Yes, it is commonly thought the moons originated as asteroids, pulled from the belt by gravity.
Where are asteroids hypothesized to have originated?
In the asteroid belt, as well as in the rings of some of the gas giants.
What do comets and asteroids not have in common?
Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids
What are small planets with orbits between mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids
How many asteroids crashed in Asia?
the asteroids crashed in Asia have 1000 asteroids
What is in an asteroids aptmosphere?
No asteroids have atmospheres.
Are asteroids luminous?
No. Asteroids are just made of rock and metal. They do not glow.
What do you call the asteroids that wander in space?
meteoroids
Do stars become asteroids in space?
Stars are tremendously larger than asteroids and do not become asteroids.
Are rocks made of asteroids and how?
The material that forms rocks ultimately does come from asteroids. But the rocks on earth have been destroyed, re-formed, and altered numerous times by geologic processes, so it would be erroneous to say they are "made of asteroids." As to how: The planets originated from a disk of gas and dust orbiting the young sun. The dust coalesced into larger particles, which eventually grew into asteroids. These asteroids collided with one another, forming larger and larger bodies. Some of these became planet-like objects called planetesimals, which collided to form proto-planets. Eight of these proto-planets eventually became the planets we know today, including Earth.
