What Are Asteroids And Where Do They Come From?

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun, just like the rest of the planets and celestial bodies in our solar system. Although asteroids are present throughout the solar system, most of them live in the asteroid belt—a region located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The size of objects within the asteroid belt have a wide range, from being no bigger than a dust particle to almost a thousand kilometers wide. Our solar system came into existence about 4.6 billion years ago when a large cloud of gas and dust collapsed.

Following this event, most of that material fell to the center of the cloud and resulted in the formation of the sun—the central star of our solar system. Planets were formed from some of the condensing dust in that cloud, but not all celestial material had the chance to be incorporated into planets. The leftovers from that time took the form of asteroids.

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[qitptey]

When a mommy astroid and Daddy astroid love each other very much

[angelamakowski]

I'm a teacher of English as a Second Language, and my student and I watched this video twice to do research for his presentation on asteroids. We both learned an amazing amount of facts about asteroids!!!

[Dsna]

It’s 9 pm and I was wondering how huge rocks end up in space, cool video.

[_Rabbit_]

Wow, this video told me everything I needed to know about asteroids in a comprehensive and concise way! Thank you!

[rohanchung]

Good explanation and video to back it up. Thanks.

[Scienceabc]

In this video, you will see asteroids being very close to each other, especially in the asteroid belt. In reality, asteroids are really far apart, to the order of a few hundred thousand miles. The graphics used in this video are not to scale, and have been used to get a basic 'visual idea' of these celestial bodies.

[justnumber]

This was awesome. I have a question, Can a two moons orbit each other in the same size will they smash together?

[poyzon]

So how nasa can send a carrier of their rover to mars without being hit by asteroids?

[dominictalley]

What I want to know is if before the Big Bang there was nothing where did the dust particles that condensed into solid objects eventually asteroids moons and planets come from

Not saying that I don’t believe in the Big Bang or the biblical origin but it’s just a fascinating and curious question I’ve always had

[thdawg]

I don't understand, how the asteroids direction in changed in space. For example, the asteroid that came in 2013, where did that one come from? How was it coming onto earth?

[slipknotk]

Been wonders how they get the round shade and how does it form and create gravity

[megatronsdragstor]

Can you please add more videos of space .It is the most beautiful things that humans ever know

[logoalpha]

How does gas and dust make the sun? What?!

[kainwi]

The video is deceiving. The average distance between two asteroids in the asteroid belt is 600, 000 miles.

[infinitejr]

I’m here in November 2020 for school thx for the info

[jessedawkins]

In this video it says that the meteor killed 12, 000 people but when you ask Google you find that 1, 400 people were non fatally injured but nobody died

[shaiksubhani]

Why does asteroid belt is only between Mars and Jupiter?

[brianmccloskey]

Asteroids come from nothing of nothingness to nothing ever existed from in the beginning there was only darkness & then there was LIGHT

[christa]

1:13 sorry ave to do this beacuase im studying and i have to go

[admusix]

What causes the astroids to hit the Earth?