Asteroids: Formation, Discovery and Exploration

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 10:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds that revolve around the sun and are too small to be called planets. They are also called space rocks, planetoids or minor planets.

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