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Vesta, in the belt of these objects, is the brightest one in our solar system asteroids $1,600 DJ THE SOLAR SYSTEM 2020-04-08 #8198
These objects, aka minor planets, range in size from about 20 feet in diameter to around 485 miles in diameter asteroids $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 2006-12-04 #5116
Among the most distant of these, the Trojan Group actually travels in the same orbit as Jupiter Asteroids $600 DJ ASTRONOMY 2001-03-19 #3816
Most of these minor planets revolve around the sun in a "belt" between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter asteroids $400 J ASTRONOMY 1997-12-23 #3067
At about 600 miles in diameter, Ceres is the largest first discovered of these minor planets asteroids $600 DJ ASTRONOMY 1997-05-08 #2934
The total mass of these minor planets in the solar system is less than that of our moon asteroids $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 1997-01-27 #2861
Of these "minor planets", Vesta is the only one sometimes visible to the naked eye asteroids $500 J ASTRONOMY 1995-01-04 #2383
It's believed that the majority of meteorites are fragments of these minor planets asteroids $400 DJ ASTRONOMY & SPACE 1994-12-21 #2373
Icarus & Apollo, 2 of these, have diameters of about 1100 yards asteroids $500 J ASTRONOMY & SPACE 1994-12-08 #2364
Scientists have plotted the orbits of over 2500 of these, including those of Hidalgo & Amor asteroids $1,000 DJ THE SOLAR SYSTEM 1991-10-02 #1628
In 1801, Ceres became the 1st of these bodies to be discovered asteroids $500 J ASTRONOMY 1991-06-19 #1583
1 of the 2 types of orbiting bodies classed as minor planets in our solar systems asteroids DD $1,500 DJ ASTRONOMY 1988-11-29 #977
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