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Apr 2003

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1796. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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Asteroids are small bodies which orbit around the Sun and which show nocometary activity nor have the potential for it. The word `small'is intended to exclude planets from the definition. All known asteroids havediameters less than 1000 km down to a few centimeters (METEOROIDS). The largest known asteroid is 1 CERES, discovered on the 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazziin Palermo, Italy with a diame...

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