Some Facts Of Asteroids

                       Some interesting about Asteroids

1.     Asteroids are remains of a rocky planet to form between Mars and Jupiter 4.5 billion years ago.

 .     The remains did not stick each other but smashed into each other.

3.      These rocky and metallic objects were scattered through out the solar system crashing into the planets.

4.     Eventually, a belt of rocky bits known as main belt, settled between Mars and Jupiter, plus a small number of asteroids on other orbits around the Sun.

 

5.     Some asteroids, known as near-Earth asteroids, travel close to Earth and have potential to hit the earth.