21. Asteroids Ceres Pallas Juno Vesta Chiron. Over the past two decades the use of the first four discovered asteroids has become popular in astrology. http://www.astrology3d.com/educenter/asteroids.html

Ceres Pallas Juno Vesta ... Chiron Over the past two decades the use of the first four discovered asteroids has become popular in astrology. The asteroids are a series of minor planets mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Some think the asteroids are the remnants of a planet which exploded. Others believe they are a planet which never coalesced. not many years ago a more recently discovered asteroid named Chiron )located between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus) was also added to the astrological toolbox. What follows is a brief description of these five asteroids along with some suggested meanings. As with the planets,the influences of the asteroids are strongly linked to the mythological legend for which they are named. It should be stressed that a final determination the asteroids' meanings await astrologers' use, experience and interpretation. In general, the first four asteroids add a feminine influence to the masculine-dominated hierarchy of the standard ten planets. In fact, these four asteroids can be correlated to the four archetypes of woman as given in Edmund Whitman's book The Symbolic Quest. Another book, Asteroid Goddess by Demetra George, also comprehensively examines the feminine principle of the first four asteroids. CERES Ceres is the largest of the asteroids and was the first to be discovered almost 200 years ago (1801). In Roman mythology, Ceres was known as the goddess of agriculture, the harvest, and abundance of the land. The name of the Greek goddess, Demeter, which corresponds to Ceres derives from the Greek meaning "earth mother," and Ceres in a birth chart can indicate nurturing that is either received as a child, or the capacity to nurture in adulthood. If Ceres conjuncts the natal Sun, it is similar to having the Sun in Cancer, but Ceres' meaning is so rich and complex that is also corresponds to Virgo, Taurus and even Scorpio. Ceres people are very good at mothering regardless of their sex and may express this quality by having a "green thumb". They deal with food, possibly as a vocation, and they provide nourishment to either sustain health or to express love and compassion.

22. Asteroids  L  Asteroid Facts, Pictures And Information Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids. http://www.nineplanets.org/asteroids.html

Asteroids On the first day of January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered an object which he first thought was a new comet. But after its orbit was better determined it was clear that it was not a comet but more like a small planet. Piazzi named it Ceres, after the Sicilian goddess of grain. Three other small bodies were discovered in the next few years (Pallas, Vesta, and Juno). By the end of the 19th century there were several hundred. Several hundred thousand asteroids have been discovered and given provisional designations so far. Thousands more are discovered each year. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands more that are too small to be seen from the Earth . There are 26 known asteroids larger than 200 km in diameter. Our census of the largest ones is now fairly complete: we probably know 99% of the asteroids larger than 100 km in diameter. Of those in the 10 to 100 km range we have cataloged about half. But we know very few of the smaller ones; there are probably considerably more than a million asteroids in the 1 km range. The total mass of all the asteroids is less than that of the Moon 11 comets and asteroids have been explored by spacecraft so far, as follows: ICE flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner. Multiple flyby missions to Comet Halley. Giotto (retarget) to Comet Grigg-Skellerup. Galileo flybys of asteroids Gaspra and Ida (and Ida satellite Dactyl). NEAR-Shoemaker flyby of asteroid Mathilde on the way to orbit and land on Eros. DS-1 flybys of asteroid Braille and Comet Borrelly. Stardust flyby of asteroid Annefrank and recent sample collection from Comet Wild 2. For future we can expect: Hayabusa (MUSES-C) to asteroid Itokawa, Rosetta to Comet Churyumov-Gerasmenko, Deep Impact to Comet Tempel 1, and Dawn to orbit asteroids Vesta and Ceres.

23. Asteroid: Definition From Answers.com n. Astronomy . Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a http://www.answers.com/topic/asteroids

24. Asteroids | Natural History Museum What and where is the asteroid belt? And what makes an asteroid shoot away from the belt and crash to Earth? http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/space/asteroids/index.html

@import url("/styles/nhm-page.css"); @import url("/styles/content.css"); @import url("/styles/utilities.css"); @import url("/styles/generic/layout/columns-single.css"); @import url("/styles/nature-online/section.css"); Skip to page content Research and curation Business centre About us Search Home Visit us Nature online Kids only ... Tring You are here: Home Nature online Space Primary navigation Space Planets and our solar system Other planetary systems Meteorites ... Impacts Asteroids The asteroid Ida photographed by Galileo © NASA Asteroids are rocky objects. There are many different types of asteroid, consisting of different amounts of metal, silicate and carbon. They also have different histories. Some of them have completely melted like the planets, whereas others have not melted but have been altered by water. This means there are a wide variety of structures both inside and on the surface of asteroids, formed by their turbulent existence. The asteroid Ida is about 55km long.  It is one of thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt. © NASA Piles of rubble Rather than one solid mass, asteroids are groups of several rocks, or rubble piles, held together by their own gravity. The largest and oldest asteroids are nearly spherical and are made up lots of smaller rocks. These are known as mature rubble piles. The largest asteroid, Ceres, is 933 kilometres in diameter, about the length of England. Asteroids this big are called minor planets. Newer asteroids may only contain a couple of large rocks and are known as contact binaries. These asteroids are about 10 metres across.

25. Asteroids - Astronomy For Kids - KidsAstronomy.com Provides a definition, a history background and pictures related to these bodies. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/asteroid.htm

26. HowStuffWorks "How Asteroids Work" Illustrated description of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft. http://www.howstuffworks.com/asteroid.htm

HSW.sm.loadPageInfo(9258); OAS_AD('TopBanner'); HowStuffWorks Search HowStuffWorks and the web Video Podcasts Blogs Quizzes Games RSS Adventure Animals Auto Culture ... Next Page How Asteroids Work by Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D. Print Cite Feedback ... Recommend Cite This! Close Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article: Inside this Article Introduction to How Asteroids Work Asteroid Classification Project NEAR NEAR Lands on Eros ... See all Astronomy Terms articles The Space Shuttle Videos Space Dust Image Gallery Stocktrek Images/ Getty Images There are more than 20,000 known asteroids. See more space pictures Credit NASA with another milestone in space exploration: On February 12, 2001, a spacecraft landed on the surface of an asteroid for the first time in history. After a year spent orbiting the asteroid 433 Eros, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft made a controlled descent to the surface. But what exactly is an asteroid? And what was the NEAR Shoemaker mission about? In 1772, a mathematician named

27. Asteroids: Information From Answers.com Release Date September 21, 1999 Genre Shooter Style Fixed Screen Shooter Similar Games Space Duel (Arcade), Space Duel (Commodore 64/128), Space Fury (Arcade), UFO http://www.answers.com/topic/asteroids-game-6

var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology Asteroids Games: Asteroids Home Library Games Guide Buy Now Release Date: September 21, 1999 Genre: Shooter Style: Fixed Screen Shooter Similar Games: Space Duel (Arcade), Space Duel (Commodore 64/128), Space Fury (Arcade), UFO (Commodore 64/128), Blasteroids (Arcade), Maelstrom (Macintosh), Space Fury (ColecoVision), UFO! (Odyssey 2), Blasteroids (Commodore 64/128) Game Description How can one small asteroid cause so much havoc? It's just a rock, right? Wrong! These free-floating hunks of rock damage ships and destroy convoys while making life difficult for the military trying to fight nasty extra-terrestrials. It's costing the company millions in lost cargo and various other precious commodities and may even start to cost them those lucrative military contracts in a galaxy littered with riches and hostile aliens. So, what does it have to do with you? Well, the Astro-Mining Corporation is looking for a few good pilots to help clear the galaxy of those pesky asteroids. Clear a path so the company makes money and you make money. Oh yeah, you'll also need to take on the alien queen and clear out the rest of the aliens before returning home. It's all part of the Astro-Mining Corporation's plans to make as much money as it can. Activision's Asteroids has three levels of difficulty for five areas with five levels. With three ships at your command and plenty of power-ups to enhance your weapons and defenses, not to mention an assortment of asteroids and aliens, you can play by yourself or with a friend in the two-player mode.

28. Asteroids And Us Common questions. http://whyfiles.org/074asteroid/

Coming soon the ultimate extinction machines? 4 NOV 1998 Credit the blasted-from-space movies Deep Impact and Armageddon. Or blame the one-day scare from March, 1998, when headlines warned that a beefy asteroid could zoom within 30,000 kilometers of Earth or even sledgehammer our tender green planet in 2028. Within a day, egg-bespattered astronomers used 1990 data to issue a revised estimate. It's safe to say that the asteroid will miss us by a good 600,000 kilometers about twice the distance of the moon. Still, the confluence of events has put The Why Files in an asteroidal frame of mind. Nobody knows the destruction that would result from a collision with one of these sub-planetary objects, but the evidence points to sudden, catastrophic and global damage. You could say it's pretty amazing that 1998 turned out to be a boom year for asteroids. Unlike planets, these misshapen agglomerations of rock and debris are not named for ancient gods. Instead they must answer to clunky handles like "1997 YF11" or "1998 ML14"). Asteroids are also far punier than planets: Ceres, the largest, is about 1,000 kilometers in diameter, but most are under a kilometer across. Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, crashing into each other in a silent version of 3-D bumper cars that slowly grinds them to bits.

29. Asteroids asteroids. Where They Are. The vast majority of asteroids are grouped in the asteroid belt, which is more like a loose grouping than a belt, and lies between 1.8 and 4 http://filer.case.edu/sjr16/advanced/asteroid.html

Asteroids Where They Are The vast majority of asteroids are grouped in the asteroid belt, which is more like a loose grouping than a belt, and lies between 1.8 and 4.5 A.U. (1 A.U. is the average distance between Earth and the sun ) from the sun - between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter . The asteroids are so small and far away that they appear as faint stars, if they even appear at all; no asteroid is bright enough to be seen without some optical aid, except Ceres (see below) on its closest approach to Earth. km . Even if there are 1000 times more asteroids than we know of today, then on average each asteroid would have over one million km to itself. But, there are asteroids all over the solar system they are not just confined to the belt. Their location only indicates what kind of orbit they have, as most asteroids look pretty much the same, such as the image of Gaspra on the right. Other than belt asteroids, there are several other classifications of asteroids, based upon their location and orbit in the solar system: Amors asteroids are those that cross Mars' orbit; there are approximately known 1540 Amors.

30. Asteroids From the Uppsala Planetary System Group. Overview, research projects, discoveries. http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/asteroid

Asteroids Introduction In addition to the Sun and the major planets with their satellites, the solar system is populated with numerous comets and asteroids. These small bodies are the remains from the formation of the solar system some 5 billion years ago. Contrary the terrestrial planets, which are more or less geologically evolved, many comets and asteroids are to a large extent preserved in their pristine condition. Most asteroids are found in the main-belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and are most probably the remains of a planet that failed to form, due to the perturbations of Jupiter. An almost equally large population is the Trojan asteroids, which are trapped in the two Lagrangian points 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter in its orbit. Another important group is the near-Earth asteroids, where several are on Earth-crossing orbits and may pose a potential threat upon the Earth The study of asteroids is one important key to the understanding of the early solar system. The evolution of the asteroids and their interactions in the present-day solar system are also important issues. There are many open questions related to the distribution of mass, angular momentum, and chemical composition in the main-belt. The few images available of asteroids show highly irregular shapes, indicating violent histories of impacts and collisions. The traditional distinction between comets and asteroids seems to become increasingly more vague with new discoveries of borderline and transitional objects.

31. Asteroids - Crystalinks asteroids. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid). http://www.crystalinks.com/asteroids.html

Asteroids An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid). These minor planets are much smaller than the small planets such as Mercury or Mars. It is believed that most asteroids are remnants of the protoplanetary disc. The incorporation of these remnants into the planets during the formation of the Solar System was prevented by large gravitational perturbations induced by Jupiter. Some asteroids have moons. The vast majority of the asteroids are within the main asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter. In the last years of the 18th century, Baron Franz Xaver von Zach organized a group of 24 astronomers to search the sky for the "missing planet" predicted at about 2.8 AU from the Sun by the Titius-Bode law, partly as a consequence of the discovery, by Sir William Herschel in 1781, of the planet Uranus at the distance "predicted" by the law. This task required that hand-drawn sky charts be prepared for all stars in the zodiacal band down to an agreed-upon limit of faintness. On subsequent nights, the sky would be charted again and any moving object would, hopefully, be spotted. The expected motion of the missing planet was about 30 seconds of arc per hour, readily discernable by observers.Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.

32. Asteroids With Satellites Lists of known or suspected asteroids with satellites. Also history, graphs, links. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html

Asteroids with Satellites by Wm. Robert Johnston last updated 3 October 2010 Contents: List of confirmed and suspected binary asteroids/TNOs with links to separate pages of data and links on specific binary asteroids/TNOs Tables of data on binary asteroids and other reports of asteroid/TNO companions (separate pages) General discussion Images and figures regarding binary asteroids/TNOs (separate pages) Linkslists, databases, articles, etc. including link to separate page listing abstracts at ADS List of confirmed and suspected binary asteroids/TNOs by class or by designation, with orbital class of object in parenthesis (Follow links to pages with data and links on specific objects, including links to abstracts at ADS): Link to list by date of announcement of detection by dynamical class: near Earth objects: (1862) Apollo (Apollo) (1866) Sisyphus (Apollo) (3671) Dionysus and S/1997 (3671) 1 (Amor) (5381) Sekhmet (Aten) (7088) Ishtar (Amor) (31345) 1998 PG (Amor) (35107) 1991 VH and S/2008 (35107) 1 (Apollo) (65803) Didymos (Amor) (Aten) (Aten) (69230) Hermes (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (136617) 1994 CC (Apollo) (Aten) (Amor) (162000) 1990 OS (Apollo) (Aten) (Apollo) (Apollo) and S/2000 (2000 DP107) 1 (Apollo) (Amor) 1994 XD (Apollo) (Aten) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Amor) (Apollo) (Amor) (Apollo) 2004 DC (Apollo) 2005 AB (Amor) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) Mars crossers: (1139) Atami (2044) Wirt (2577) Litva (5407) 1992 AX ... (16635) 1993 QO main belt members: (22) Kalliope and Linus (41) Daphne ... (45) Eugenia, Petit-Prince,

33. Asteroids, Asteroid, Asteroid Belt At SPACE.com Space.com explains asteroids, asteroid, asteroid belt, asteroid impact, asteroids and comets http://www.space.com/asteroids/

dartTag = 'homepage/home'; All About Asteroids During the formation of our solar system , hundreds of thousands of particles were pulled by Jupiter’s gravity rather than being spread out through space. These minor planets, or asteroids, are the products of the protoplanetary disc – dense rings of gas surrounding a newly formed star Most asteroids orbit within an area between Jupiter and Mars known as the asteroid belt. These relatively small objects look like tiny specks of light from earth, if they are visible at all. For decades scientists tried to identify specific asteroids, but it wasn’t until 1801 when Giuseppe Piazzi identified the first asteroid: 1 Ceres. As of April, 2006, 330,795 asteroids have been named, and we are constantly finding more. The possible impact of asteroids and comets with the Earth’s surface could be catastrophic. We need only refer to the extinction of dinosaurs to illustrate this reality. Scientists have made efforts to more closely observe asteroids and detect possible threats. Beginning with the first close-up images in 1991 by the probe Galileo, we continue to make new efforts of discovery. The three most potentially dangerous groups of asteroids are Apollos, Amors, and Atens. We are also able to learn about asteroid impact from the effects they have had on other planets and their

34. Asteroids: Zoom Astronomy Introduction to asteroids. EnchantedLearning.com is a usersupported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/asteroids/

Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Click here to learn more. Become a member of Enchanted Learning. Site subscriptions last 12 months. Click here for more information on site membership. As low as $20.00/year (directly by Credit Card Site members have access to the entire website with print-friendly pages and no ads. (Already a member? Click here. Table of Contents Enchanted Learning All About Astronomy Site Index Our Solar System Stars Glossary ... Astronomers ASTEROIDS Introduction Near-Earth Asteroids (NEA) Asteroids and Dinosaurs ... Web Links Asteroids ASTEROIDS Asteroid 253 Mathilde, a Near-Earth Asteroid photographed by NASA's NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) mission in June 1997. Mathilde is about 60 km in diameter and orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects, most of which orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter . A few asteroids approach the Sun more closely. None of the asteroids have atmospheres.

35. Asteroid Model Series -1988 ML14, 1992 SK, 1998 KY26, Bacchus, Betulia, Castalia Scientifically accurate scale models of asteroids. http://www.serradesignsinc.com/ast_models.htm

Home New Designs Architectural Artistic ... Other Sites Asteroid Model Series 1992 SK Bacchus Betulia Castalia Itokawa Geographos Golevka Eros Kleopatra Toutatis Museum Quality Replicas of the Asteroids 1988 ML14, 1992 SK, 1998 KY26, Bacchus, Betulia, Castalia, Itokawa, Geographos, Golevka, Museum quality, hand-crafted, custom resin castings of the asteroids. Licensed under authority of NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory The first in a series of collector pieces presented by Serra Designs. The asteroid models used to make these replicas were created from the actual radar images taken by astronomers then formed in a 3-D layering, or stereolithography , machine. The asteroid models can be purchased at www.SomeOddsandEnds.com They are available with the base or without the base as singles Actual radar images of the asteroids.

36. Asteroids | Atari Video Games Atari is a global producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for all market segments and all interactive game platforms. http://www.atari.com/arcade/asteroids

37. Asteroids - Their History, Small Bodies Orbiting The Sun And Planets Around Othe Information on the study of these objects orbiting the sun. http://www.cosmicelk.net/asteroids.htm

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38. Asteroids - Videogame By Atari The asteroids coinoperated Videogame by Atari (circa 1979), and it's history and background, screen shots, cheats, repair information, manuals, machines for sale and wanted http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?letter=A&game_id=6939

39. Asteroid Fact Sheet Provides a table of information on selected asteroids. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html

Asteroid Fact Sheet Information on Selected Asteroids The image above is a false color view of the asteroid 951 Gaspra taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Below is a table of information on selected asteroids, and at the bottom of the page are comments on the asteroids. All of the values for mass and many of the diameter values are only rough estimates. Asteroid Diameter ~Mass Rotation Orbital Spectral Semimajor Orbital Orbital Number Number and Name (km) 10 1 Ceres - The largest and first discovered asteroid, by G. Piazzi on January 1, 1801. Ceres comprises over one-third the 2.3 x 10 kg estimated total mass of all the asteroids. 2 Pallas - The 2nd largest asteroid and second asteroid discovered, by H. Olbers in 1802. 3 Juno - The 3rd asteroid discovered, by K. Harding in 1804. 4 Vesta - The 3rd largest asteroid, Vesta appears to have a basaltic crust overlying an olivine mantle, indicating differentiation has occurred. Imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. 45 Eugenia - Believed to have a small satellite S/1998 (45) 1 in near circular 4.7 day orbit as reported in

40. Asteroid Facts - Explore The Cosmos | The Planetary Society asteroids, or minor planets, are small, rocky (or sometimes metallic) bodies with no atmospheres. There are hundreds of thousands of minor planets; nearly 100,000 have been http://planetary.org/explore/topics/asteroids_and_comets/facts.html

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