What Is an Asteroid? | Asteroids for kids | Learn all about asteroids

What is the difference between a comet, a meteor, and an asteroid? In this video, you and your kids will learn specifically about asteroids. Sometimes when you look at the night sky, you will see lots of lights in the sky. But not all of those shiny spots are starts. A few of them are planets. And a couple of them are actually asteroids!

Asteroids can be as small as a speck of dust, and they can be hundreds of miles in diameter! They are made of mostly rock, but they might contain clay or silicon, or even metal. Those metals are usually nickel or iron, but some asteroids contain precious metals like gold and platinum.

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains most of the asteroids in our solar system. There are around a million asteroids that are over half a mile long! And there are millions more that are smaller. Ceres is the biggest asteroid in the belt, maybe even the solar system. It is so big that scientists consider it a dwarf planet! While most asteroids can't be seen from Earth, Vesta can be. Vesta is the second largest asteroid in the belt, but it is the brightest one in the sky. If it's in the right position, you can see it with the naked eye!

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What you will learn in this video:
0:00 Introduction to asteroids and what they are
1:30 What is an asteroid made of, and what does it look like?
2:33 Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
3:37 Can you see asteroids from Earth?
4:35 Are there asteroids near Earth?
4:59 Other cool facts about asteroids
5:34 How to see an asteroid from Earth
6:02 Review of asteroids

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