Asteroids

Asteroids

Made by Aisha Sheikh, Afreen Arif, Ayesha Memon (Room 1)

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Information about asteroids?

• Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. The first asteroid was Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomer William Herschel first coined the word asteroid, which means “star like” in 1802.

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What are Asteroids?

• Asteroids are small rocky objects

• Asteroids are large rocky objects

• Asteroids are satellites

• Asteroids is a food.

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• As well as being the first asteroid discovered, Ceres is also the largest known asteroid at 933 kilometers (580 miles) across. The smallest known asteroid, 1991 BA, is only 6 meters (20 feet) across. Current theory suggest that asteroids are planetisimals – the building blocks of planets – that were never incorporated into one of the eight planets in our solar system. Apollo objects are asteroids whose orbit crosses the orbit of Earth. An asteroid impact around 65 million years ago caused a chain reaction that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and affected all life on Earth, according to scientists.

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what are planetesimals?

• type of asteroid

• the buliding block of planets

• a type of planet

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Where are Asteroids found?

• Asteroids are found in the Asteroid belt between orbits of Mars and Jupiter

• Asteroids are found around earth

• Asteroids are found around the sun

• Asteroids is found around Pluto.

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where is the asteroid belt located?

• between mars and jupiter

• between saturn and uranus

• mercury and venus

• saturn and neptune

Fun Fact!!

• Did you know how many asteroids are there now?

• 1,095,225.

• Remember the number

4 types of Asteroids

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How many asteroids are there (currently)?

• 1,095,20

• 1,095,267

• 1,095,278

• 1,095,225

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What does Asteroid mean?

• A rock

• Happiness

• Star

• Dwarf Planet

Did You Know?

• The total mass of all the asteroids in the main asteroid belt combined is less than that of Earth's Moon.

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When was the last asteroid impact?

• 65 Million years ago

• 78 Million years ago

• 56 Million years ago

• 5 Million years ago

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What are apollo objects?

• another name for asteroid

• an asteroid which crosses the orbit of the earth

• a name of a historic asteroid

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