SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Asteroids that actually cross Earth’s orbital path are known as Earth-crossers. As of April 2022, a total of 28, 772 near-Earth asteroids were known; 878 have a diameter of one kilometer or larger.

Detailed explanation-2: -1 Ceres. Ceres is a world of firsts. It became the first asteroid ever discovered, when the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801. At 580-miles in diameter, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1801, while making a star map, Giuseppe Piazzi accidentally discovered a small object 1000 kilometers (600 miles) in diameter between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Piazzi named the object Ceres. It was the first asteroid to be discovered.

Detailed explanation-4: -The four largest asteroids in the belt are called Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. These large asteroids make up about half of the mass of the entire asteroid belt. Scientists like to say that if you combined all of these rocky asteroids together, it would make a planet a bit smaller than Earth’s moon.

Detailed explanation-5: -101955 Bennu. Bennu-discovered in 1999-is a small, near-Earth asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. 10199 Chariklo. 2019 OK. 243 Ida. 25143 Itokawa. 253 Mathilde. 433 Eros. 4 Vesta.