The celestial bodies present in the solar system, which was formed 4.6 billion years ago, include planets, satellites, asteroids and comets etc. which make up the entire solar system. All of them revolve around the Sun. Compared to the Earth, the Sun is said to be 13 lakh times bigger than it and is continuously…
Asteroids are sometimes also called small planets. NASA says that these are rocky fragments left scattered in the solar system at the time of its origin 4.6 billion years ago. NASA has given the number of asteroids as 1,299,398. That means about 13 lakh asteroids have been identified so far. Talking about the asteroids of…
NASA, the American space exploration agency, keeps tracking asteroids. According to space scientists, the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago, when our solar system was formed. During that time, some rocks also remained scattered in the solar system, which are called asteroids or asteroids. Like the planets, they continuously revolve around the sun. Asteroids…
Countless asteroids may exist in the infinite world of space. Out of which about 16 thousand asteroids are said to be near the Earth. It has not yet been discovered how asteroids were formed. Scientists consider them to be scattered pieces of planets. They are continuously rotating around the Sun in the solar system. Besides,…
