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General Properties

• What are asteroids?
• What are the main differences between comets and asteroids?
• How many asteroids are there?
• How large are the largest asteroids?
• Why are most asteroids not round?
• How can we estimate the size of an asteroid without seeing an image of its surface?

Location

• Where are the asteroids located?
• What is the asteroid belt?
• Why are there gaps in the asteroid belt?
• Where the asteroids part of a planet that later broke apart?
• Can an asteroid be captured by a planet and become a moon?
• What are the Lagrange points of Jupiter's orbit?

Exploration and Specific Asteroids

• Can asteroids have their own moons/satellites?
• How close to an asteroid have spacecraft from earth been?