Asteroids

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Asteroids

• Raychel and Leigh

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Most asteroids are the size of a house or smaller!

• Most of the asteroids are located between Mars
  and Jupiter which is an asteroid belt.
• 5,000 asteroids located in the main belt between
  Mars and Jupiter have been located and identified.

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More interesting facts about asteroids.

• Very few asteroids ever make it to Earth.
• The biggest asteroid is 621 miles in diameter and
  the smallest is a pebble size.
• Asteroids are made of bits of water and rock that
  are believed to be left over from the solar
  system 4.6 billion years ago.

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Unique facts about asteroids.

• Scientists used to believe that asteroids were
  remains of a planet that exploded.
• The asteroids in the asteroid belt could make
  another planet, but thanks to Jupiters gravity
  it keeps them apart.
• Mercury is covered in dents because an asteroid
  hit it .
• What happened to the dinosaurs?
• Scientists know that an asteroid more than 6
  miles across hit earth about 65 million years
  ago!