Asteroid small bodies which are usually rocky and/or metallic.

-- fragments of rocky materials with similar composition as the outer

layers of the terrestrial
planets
-- size is greater than 100 m in diameter.
Asteroid belts majority known asteroids found in between the orbits of Mars
and Jupiter
-- occupied by numerous asteroids.
-- contains enough material to form another rocky planet
-- 1 to 2 million asteroids are larger thank 1km across and millions are
smaller.
-- comes in various shapes: elongated, spherical, or irregular
-- known
to bewith
debris
of bodies
w/in
young sons nebula.
Trojans share
an orbit
a large
planet
orthe
moon.
-- most significant: Jupiter Trojans share same orbit as planet Jupiter
-- also found in Mars
-- dont collide because they are always either ahead or behind the
planet

 Near Earth Asteroids a.k.a NEAs.

-- most watched because there is a real possibility of one of them
colliding with earth since their orbits pass close to that earth.
-- 7075 found, 500 to 100 of them are atleast 1km in diameter.
-- impact with the earth can cause lots of damage.
-- they heat up as they pass through the atmosphere.

Tunguska Event of 1908 massive explosion which caused the destruction of an

estimated 80 million trees.
-- explosive force is estimated to have been 1000 times that of the
atom bomb dropped in Hiroshima.