Field Guide to Space Rocks and where to find them
Where do space rocks come from? Most are left over from when the solar system was born, 4.5 billion years ago. The sun and planets formed from a big spinning cloud of gas and space dust. And there are still bits of leftover rock (and gas) floating around.
ASTEROID
An asteroid is any small rocky object that orbits the sun. Asteroids range in size from a few
