Rebecca Torres By: and Melinda Stretz
water, ice and hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clays.
251 million miles from the sun!
Asteroids are also known as planetoids or minor planets. Asteroids are similar to comets but do not have a visible coma (fuzzy outline and tail) like comets do. The asteroid belt lies roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the Solar System. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid.
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