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Types of Asteroids

704 Interamnia
704 Interamnia

704 Interamnia Observations of 704 Interamnia carried out at the Observatory of Teramo (founded by the discoverer of the asteroid, Vincenzo Cerulli) for the 101st anniversary since its discovery. The animation shows Interamnia's path over three hours.

Acraman Crater
Acraman Crater

Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 kilometres (12 mi) in diameter.

Ceres
Ceres

By the 1860s, the existence of a fundamental difference between asteroids such as Ceres and the major planets was widely accepted, ...

Chicxulub Crater
Chicxulub Crater

The Chicxulub crater (/ ˈ tʃ iː k ʃ ʊ l uː b /; Mayan: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ]) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named.

Euphrosyne
Euphrosyne

Current-day Euphrosyne is thought to be a remnant of a massive collision about 700 million years ago that formed the family of smaller asteroids bearing its name. Scientists think this event was one of the last great collisions in the solar system.

source: jpl.nasa.gov
Hygiea
Hygiea

10 Hygiea is the fourth-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass, and it is located in the asteroid belt. With somewhat oblong diameters of 350–500 kilometres (220–310 mi) and a mass estimated to be 2.9% of the total mass of the belt, it is the largest of the class of dark C-type asteroids with a carbonaceous surface.

Kara Crater
Kara Crater

The Kara crater size: Suevite layer outside the crater depression, Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII, abstract #1480. 2002. Basilevsky, A. T., Fel'dman, V. I., Geochemistry of the impactites from the Yanis'Yarvi, Kara, and El'gygytgyn craters (in Russian).

source: passc.net
image: fossweb.com
Manicouagan Crater
Manicouagan Crater

It is thought that they are as numerous as the asteroids in the asteroid belt. There are Mars and Neptune trojans, ... Manicouagan Crater; Asteroids With Moons;

Morokweng Crater
Morokweng Crater

This list of impact craters on Earth contains a selection of the 190 confirmed craters given in the Earth Impact Database. To keep the lists manageable, only the largest craters within a time period are included. The complete list is divided into separate articles by geographical region.

Pallas
Pallas

Pallas, third largest asteroid in the asteroid belt and the second such object to be discovered, by the German astronomer and physician Wilhelm Olbers on March 28, 1802, following the discovery of Ceres the year before. It is named after Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.

Sudbury Basin
Sudbury Basin

The basin is located on the Canadian Shield in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The former municipalities of Rayside-Balfour, Valley East and Capreol lie within the Sudbury Basin, which is referred to locally as "The Valley". The urban core of the former city of Sudbury lies on the southern outskirts of the basin.

image: wired.com
Vesta
Vesta

Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, surpassed only by Ceres, which is classified as a dwarf planet. The brightest asteroid in the sky, Vesta is occasionally visible from Earth with the naked eye. It is the first of the four largest asteroids (Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea) to be visited by a spacecraft.

source: space.com
image: nasa.gov
Vredefort Crater
Vredefort Crater

The Vredefort crater is the largest verified impact crater on Earth, more than 300 km (186 mi) across when it was formed. What remains of it is located in the present-day Free State Province of South Africa and named after the town of Vredefort, which is situated near its center.

Woodleigh Crater
Woodleigh Crater

Woodleigh is a large meteorite impact crater (astrobleme) in Western Australia, centred on Woodleigh Station east of Shark Bay, Gascoyne region.