How are the asteroids formed?
The word asteroid means star like, but an asteroid is a lump of solid minerals, and a star is a nuclear furnace of seething gases. True, most asteroids are up in the starry sky, but rarely do we see one. Some asteroids are t0 be found on the earth. These grounded asteroids may reveal how the teeming belt of asteroids was formed. Lately, science has revealed some astounding information about meteorites. These are grounded space travelers which, we are told., form part of the drifting debris in the space ways of the solar system. Most experts agree that many of these meteorites were once asteroids. Iron and nickel meteorites are made from heavy metals like those in the earth’s core. Stony meteorites are made from lighter minerals like those of the earth’s crust. In the formation of a planet, the heavy elements tend to sink to the center, but this process takes time. The different meteorites suggest that they might be fragments of some larger body which was once a planet. The asteroids wh
