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Potato-Shaped Mars Moon Phobos May Be a Captured Asteroid
The 7 Strangest Asteroids in the Solar System
Asteroids A-Plenty NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta, the first of two space rocks its mission will visit.
Asteroid belt - Wikipedia
951 Gaspra, the first asteroid imaged by a spacecraft, as viewed during Galileos 1991 flyby; colors are exaggerated. A total of 1,000 asteroids had been found by 1921, 10,000 by 1981, and 100,000 by 2000. Modern asteroid survey systems now use automated means to locate new minor planets in ever-increasing quantities.