Asteroids
Abstract
Asteroids are small bodies which orbit around the Sun and which show nocometary activity nor have the potential for it. The word `small'is intended to exclude planets from the definition. All known asteroids havediameters less than 1000 km down to a few centimeters (METEOROIDS). The largest known asteroid is 1 CERES, discovered on the 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazziin Palermo, Italy with a diame...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/1796
- Bibcode:
- 2003eaa..bookE1796F
- Keywords:
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- Solar System;
- Asteroids