Asteroids+and+Meteors

=Asteroids and Meteors=

What is an asteroid
researched by Phut

Asteroids are small bodies that are believed to be left over from the beginning of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. They are rocky objects with round or irregular shapes up to several hundred km across, but most are much smaller.


 * What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteor?**


 * Meteor was smaller then the asteroid.