Discover the area of the planets to understand where the asteroids are, what they are and where they orbit, dimensions and theories about their origins.
Clarifications on where the asteroids are located
Asteroids are small bodies that orbit the Sun like planets, they are also called small planets due to their small size.
The number of asteroids is very high, there is talk of about 10 billion, with very variable dimensions, starting from the speck of dust with celestial bodies with diameters of hundreds of kilometers, orbiting on different orbits included in the cosmic space between Mars and Jupiter.
It is widely believed that asteroids are remains of the protoplanetary disc that were not included in the planets during the formation of the Solar System.
Asteroids are frequently affected by orbits with a high eccentricity and those of very small size, equal to at most those of a boulder, are known as meteorites.
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