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the solar system's leftover construction debris, still holding a grudge against dinosaurs.
means rocky bodies too small to be planets, mostly orbiting between mars and jupiter in a belt jupiter's gravity refuses to let clump together.
from from greek asteroeides, meaning star-like, coined in 1802 by william herschel because through early telescopes they looked like faint points of light rather than fuzzy disks.
total massbelt's whole mass is less than the moon's
ceres statusbiggest asteroid is also a dwarf planet
near missesthousands classified as potentially hazardous objects
gold rushsome contain more platinum than earth's mines