Download Space: Asteroid Belt

Asteroid Belt
1. An asteroid is a bit of rock leftover from when the Sun and planets were
formed – most asteroids orbit the sun in between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter (called the “asteroid belt”)
2. Asteroids in the belt often crash into each other or collide and break into
smaller ones.
3. Can be as small as a few feet or as big as several hundred miles –
Asteroid belt has at least 40,000 that are at least ½ mile wide
4. Asteroids that are captured by a planet’s gravitational pull become moons
that orbit the planet.
5. The largest asteroid is as big as Texas and is called Ceres.