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Download Solution PDFAsteroids are found between the orbits of
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Mars and Jupiter.
Key Points
- Asteroids
- Apart from the planets, and satellites, numerous tiny bodies also move around the sun. These bodies are called asteroids.
- They are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
- Scientists are of the view that asteroids are parts of a planet that exploded many years back.
- Asteroid Belt is a circumstellar disc in the Solar System.
- Asteroid Belt is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
- Four largest asteroids
- Ceres
- Vesta
- Pallas
- Hygiea
- Ceres, the asteroid belt's only dwarf planet.
- Asteroids orbit the Sun and are small bodies on the solar system.
- They are made up of metals and rocks and also consist of organic compounds.
- They are similar to comets but don’t have a coma-like comet.
- Asteroids tend to have shorter and elliptical orbits.
- Astronomers have discovered millions of asteroids some that measure hundreds of kilometers across and some as small as dust particles.
- Asteroids have an elliptical orbit.
- It is made of metals and rocks.
- Do not produce a coma or tail atmosphere.
- The orbital period is 1 to 100 years.
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