- as the main
asteroid belt. The
total m**** of all the
asteroids combined is only 3% that of Earth's Moon. The
majority of main belt
asteroids follow slightly...
- has
shown that the
asteroid belt has
between 700,000 and 1.7 million
asteroids with a
diameter of 1 km or more. The
number of
asteroids in the main belt...
- An
asteroid family is a po****tion of
asteroids that
share similar proper orbital elements, such as
semimajor axis, eccentricity, and
orbital inclination...
-
binaries are
known in each of the main groupings: near-Earth
asteroids, belt
asteroids, and trans-Neptunian objects, not
including numerous claims based...
-
asteroids in the MPC database, MPCORB.DAT (139 MB)".
International Astronomical Union's
Minor Planet Center. July 2024. "Critical
Lists of
Asteroids"...
- main-belt
asteroids with a
diameter above 10 km (6.2 mi) have
already been discovered,
there might be as many as 10
trillion 1 m (3.3 ft)-sized
asteroids or...
- Most
known PHOs and NEOs are
asteroids, but
about 0.35% are comets.
There are over 34,000
known near-Earth
asteroids (NEAs) and over 120
known short-period...
- The
Apollo asteroids are a
group of near-Earth
asteroids named after 1862 Apollo,
discovered by
German astronomer Karl
Reinmuth in the 1930s. They are...
-
Asteroid mining is the
hypothetical extraction of
materials from
asteroids and
other minor planets,
including near-Earth objects.
Notable asteroid mining...
- Aten
asteroids are a
dynamical group of
asteroids whose orbits bring them into
proximity with Earth. By definition,
Atens are Earth-crossing
asteroids (a < 1...
