SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Astronomers on Earth have studied Psyche in visible and infrared wavelengths, as well as radar, which suggests Psyche is shaped somewhat like a potato. Psyche orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 235 million to 309 million miles (378 million to 497 million kilometers) from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -An asteroid is a chunk of rock and metal in outer space that is in orbit around the Sun. Asteroids vary in size from just a few feet across to hundreds of miles in diameter. Most asteroids are not round, but are lumpy and shaped like a potato. As they orbit the Sun, they tumble and spin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Smaller bodies like asteroids lack the mass-and thus the gravity-to pull their rocky surfaces into a spherical shape. The rocks resist the weak gravitational tug and retain the lumpy-looking, potato or dumbbell shapes we see in asteroid photos from spacecraft or Earth-based radar observations.

Detailed explanation-4: –Asteroids are smaller in size due to which the effect of gravity is not that high and it results in irregular shape of asteroids.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta are the three largest asteroids. Even though they are much smaller than the planets (Ceres, the largest asteroid, has only 1% the mass of the Moon), they are still capable of causing changes in the orbits of Mars and the Earth.