Asteroids - Worldatlas.com

Most asteroids are minor and far, so observing them without equipment is impossible. Only one asteroid, called 4 Vesta, is sometimes visible to the naked eye.

After the formation of the sun, there was a tremendous amount of debris in its orbit. Most of this debris coalesced to form the planets and their moons. Some of this debris never became part of the p… [+6166 chars]

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