...Outline 9-1 Most asteroids orbit the Sun...
...asteroid belt 9-3 Asteroids exist outside the...
...Compare and contrast asteroids, meteoroids, and comets...
...Uranus and of asteroids between the orbits...
...science. 102 The asteroids are more descriptively...
...the number of asteroids of any given...
...decreases. Thus, smaller asteroids are much more...
...formation. Classes of asteroids having orbits that...
...Apollo and Aten asteroids, are of more...
...to recognize that asteroids are generally composed...
...Sun. Collisions of asteroids may be responsible...
...of all the asteroids is much smaller...
...satellites. Thus, the asteroids probably do not...
...of collisions involving asteroids. A large number...
...those of the asteroids and should be...
...those found in asteroids, were involved. Class...
...potential for mining asteroids. What types of...
...What types of asteroids would be most...
...useful? Are some asteroids (consider distance, chemical...
...there to mining asteroids? Do they represent...
...to be captured asteroids rather than natural...
...4. Nucleus 5. Asteroids, meteoroids, and comets...
...contains thousands of asteroids orbiting around the...
...Exercise. 8. Small asteroids outnumber large ones...
...shatter them. Only asteroids larger than some...
...only a few asteroids are present. The...
...11. The Trojan asteroids are the asteroids...
...asteroids are the asteroids trapped in Jupiter’s...
...Meteors come from asteroids because they are...
...slightly change the asteroids trajectory. 27. Comets...
...meteors. Additional Resources Asteroids Beatty, J. “Killer...
...Origins of the Asteroids” in Scientific American,...
...collision ideas for asteroids and comets. Chyba,...
...C. Introduction to Asteroids. 1988, Willmann-Bell. Good...
...60. Gunter, J. “Asteroids and Amateur Astronomers”...
...527. Kowal, C. Asteroids: Their Nature and...
...1997. Morrison, D. “Asteroids” in Astronomy, June...
...Steel, D. Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets:...
...“Can Comets Become Asteroids?” in Astronomy, Jan....
...with Comets and Asteroids” in Scientific American,...
...Steel, D. Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets:...
...on comets, meteorites, asteroids, Tunguska, etc.; available...