10 Interesting Fact About Asteroids

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• Asteroids are celestial bodies in the form of rocks or metals that orbits the sun.
• The biggest asteroid ever found named Ceres and has a diameter of about 940 km.
• Asteroids can be a danger to the earth if it experiences a collision, as happened during the dinosaur era.
• In Indonesia, asteroids were seen in April 2020 and May 2021.
• Asteroids are often referred to as planet minor or planetoid.
• NASA has a mission to send a plane to the asteroid named Bennu and bring the sample back to Earth.
• Asteroids can also be a source of valuable minerals such as gold, silver and platinum.
• Asteroids that experience a collision with the atmosphere of the earth are called meteors.
• There are around 800,000 asteroids known to orbit the sun.
• Some asteroids have natural satellites that orbit it, such as Ida asteroids which have a satellite called Dactyl.