Asteroids
by Jaden Sherman
1. What does it look like??
1.1. it is a rocky object in space that can range from a few feet wide to hundreds of miles wide.
1.1.1. most of the time it is in a round shape but if not i looks like a large rock in space.
2. How do they form??
2.1. asteroids are the leftovers from the formation of out solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
2.1.1. When our solar system was forming it had leftovers of small object floating in space, they eventually collided together and made one big asteroid. They are still being created today.
3. What causes them to crash??
3.1. Most asteroids lie in a vast ring between Jupiter and Mars
3.1.1. However, the ones that don't known as near- Earth asteroids sometimes pass the ring and shoot down to earth.
3.1.1.1. Landings of the asteroids can be so small we don't even know that they occured