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  2. List of exceptional asteroids - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] For a more complete list, see List of Solar System objects by size. The inner asteroid belt (defined as the region interior to the 3:1 Kirkwood gap at 2.50 AU) has few large asteroids. Of those in the above list, only 4 Vesta, 19 Fortuna, 6 Hebe, 7 Iris and 9 Metis orbit there. (Sort table by mean distance.)

  3. List of Solar System objects - Wikipedia

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    Asteroids number in the hundreds of thousands. For longer lists, see list of exceptional asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of Solar System objects by size. Asteroid moons; A number of smaller groups distinct from the asteroid belt; The outer Solar System with the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets. Jupiter

  4. Category:Lists of asteroids - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of asteroids, e.g. by discoverer or by number. See list of minor planets for an overview and numbering and naming conventions . Pages in category "Lists of asteroids"

  5. Asteroid - Wikipedia

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    A top view of asteroid group location in the inner solar system A map of planets and asteroid groups of the inner solar system. Distances from sun are to scale, object sizes are not. Various dynamical groups of asteroids have been discovered orbiting in the inner Solar System.

  6. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    Parts-per-million chart of the relative mass distribution of the Solar System, each cubelet denoting 2 × 10 24 kg. This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists can be sorted according to an object's radius and mass and, for the most ...

  7. Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space

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    “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on ...

  8. Asteroid belt - Wikipedia

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    As a result, 99.9% of the asteroid belt's original mass was lost in the first 100 million years of the Solar System's history. [11] Some fragments eventually found their way into the inner Solar System, leading to meteorite impacts with the inner planets.

  9. Asteroid Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life - AOL

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    Bennu is both an old and a new asteroid. Like all of the millions of other objects in the asteroid belt, it formed 4.5 billion years ago when our solar system was just accreting. But its loose ...