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Asteroids - Meteorites: Visitors From The Solar System
Asteroids - Meteorites: Visitors From The Solar System
The ``fluff'' may be small in size but certainly not in importance. We get clues
of the origin of the solar system from these small objects.
There are millions of
small rocks that
orbit the Sun, most
of them between the
orbits of Mars and
Jupiter. About one
million of them are
larger than 1
kilometer across.
S = Silicates