SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Asteroids are rocky, airless worlds that orbit our sun, but are too small to be called planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Asteroids are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the Sun, but do not meet the requirements to be classified as a planet. The term asteroid covers a very broad range of Solar System objects, including debris left behind by objects that did not successfully grow into planets.

Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids Asteroids are rocky, airless worlds that orbit our Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -Asteroids are small, rocky worlds with generally irregular shapes. Orbiting the Sun mainly in a sparse, broad belt between Mars and Jupiter, they are scraps left over from the formation of the planets.

Detailed explanation-5: -First of all, there’s not enough total mass in the belt to form a planet. Second, the belt is too close to Jupiter. We haven’t counted every tiny asteroid by a long shot, but we can estimate the mass of the belt from the asteroids we see and by monitoring the orbits of both Mars and Earth.