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My topic is Asteroids. Here, i am going to explain the various terms of asteroids , like what are asteroids?, how these are formed?, classification of asteroids. I will be giving views, about, Ceres which is the largest known asteroid till now in term of size and also the smaller one. I will be telling about “near earth asteroids”. Some impacts on earth, when it slammed into the earth. ASTEROIDS
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Asteroids are basically minor planet, especially those of the inner solar system. One more term is associated with asteroids are planetoids, these are the larger one. As per traditional beliefs asteroids are small bodies orbiting the Sun. the term asteroids is ill defined.
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these are small not too much small, that’s why these are called minor planets.
Another definition is, Asteroids is a large, irregularly shaped, rocky object in space that revolve around the sun.
Many of the celestial small bodies that comprise rocks and metal that revolve around the sun (mainly between the orbits of mars and Jupiter) are called as asteroids.

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