GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
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What is a small body from which a planet originated in the early stages of development of the solar system called?
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inertia
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planetesimal
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terrestrial planet
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gas giant
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Asteroids are small planetesimals or fragments of planetismals shattered by random impacts in the chaotic early days of the solar system.
Detailed explanation-2: -The small bodies in the solar system include comets, asteroids, the objects in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud, small planetary satellites, Triton, Pluto, Charon, and interplanetary dust.
Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids are the rocky remnants of material leftover from the formation of the solar system and its planets approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The majority of asteroids originate from the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA.
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