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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Asteroid, Kirkwood gap, Asteroid impact avoidance, Asteroids in fiction, Dawn, Occultation, Asteroid family, Standard asteroid physical characteristics, Asteroids in astrology, Hubble search for transition comets, Main-belt comet, Extinct comet, Colonization of the asteroids, Gravitational keyhole, Dynamic method, Rubble pile, 2010 AA15, (11436) 1969 QR, 2009 VA, 2002 VE68, 7474, 21387 Wafakhalil, Asteroid capture, (3757) 1982 XB, 2002 MN, 2010 GA6, (11434) 1931 TC2, 5657 Groombridge, (11435) 1931 UB, 2010 AB78, 20862 Jenngoedhart, 17988 Joannehsieh, 18163 Jennalewis, (32730) 1951 RX, 18175 Jenniferchoy, 17914 Joannelee, (30717) 1937 UD, 15076 Joellewis, (32729) 5179 T-3, 18782 Joanrho, (30716) 5107 T-3, (30715) 5034 T-3, (7542) 1953 GN, (30713) 4216 T-3, (30714) 4282 T-3, Mel Bartels, 2010 RX30, 6344 P-L, 2008 HR3, 2010 RF12, Commensurability, 2008 HQ3, 2008 HS3, Ceres Connection, 1809 Prometheus, 1994 XL1, 91287 Simon-Garfunkel, Contact binary, 12522 Rara, 95016 Kimjeongho, 93102 Leroy, 94400 Hongdaeyong, 9569 Quintenmatsijs, 95802 Francismuir, 91890 Kiriko Matsuri, 94884 Takuya, 96623 Leani, 12323 Haeckel, (49999) 2000 AW14, (49998) 2000 AA13. Excerpt: Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids. Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small rocky-icy and met...
