asteroid

Asteroids, minor planets

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Asteroids (asteroid, "star-like", from the Greek aster "star" and eidos "species"), small planets, planetoids -
planets in the solar system that differ from other planets in their small size (about 1 to 1000 km in diameter). In contrast to the nuclei of comets, asteroids have a stony composition, the substance of the surface of many asteroids in composition is similar to meteorites. Asteroid Matilda with a satellite The largest of the asteroids are: 1 Ceres (diameter 913 km), 2 Pallada (523 km), 4 Vesta (501 km), 10 Hygia (429 km), 511 David (337 km), 704 Interamnia (333 km), 52 Europa (312 km), 15 Eunomy (272 km), 87 Silvia (271 km), 16 Psyche (264 km), 31 Euphrosina (248 km), 65 Cybele (245 km) and 3 Juno (244 km).