Sentences with phrase «most small asteroids»
Most small asteroids are thought to have been severely damaged in this way, giving them a «rubble pile» internal structure.
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[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.»
As a result, most asteroids — as well as comets and small moons — live out their days as static, irregularly shaped worlds.
The report, which came out in January and with which Boslough otherwise fully agrees, reveals that the scientific inventory of Earth - threatening space objects (asteroids and comets), especially the smaller ones that are most likely to impact our planet, is far from complete and unlikely to improve significantly without a greatly increased funds for NEO search programs.
Most meteorites derive from small bodies located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.