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Most asteroids orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists think there are probably millions of asteroids, ranging widely in size from hundreds of kilometers across to less than one kilometer a little more than one-half mile wide.
Occasionally, asteroids' orbital paths are influenced by the gravitational tug of planets, which cause their paths to alter. Scientists believe stray asteroids or fragments from earlier collisions have slammed into Earth in the past, playing a major role in the evolution of our planet. Comets are relatively small, fragile, irregularly shaped bodies and, like asteroids, they are left over from the solar system formation process. Comets, however, are icy dirtballs that form in the outer solar system.
The icy surface is embedded with dust, grit and particles from space. Many comets have elliptical orbits that cut across the orbits of the planets, taking them very close to the Sun and then swinging them far away, often past Pluto. The most distant comets may take more than 30 million years to complete one orbit. Comets with smaller orbital paths can take less than years to orbit the Sun, making them more predictable.
When far from the Sun, comets are very cold, icy dirtballs. As they approach the Sun, their surfaces begin to warm and volatile materials vaporize. The vaporizing gases carry small dust grains with them, which form an atmosphere of gas and dust and can look like a bright tail when seen from Earth.
Scientists believe that impacts from comets played a role in the evolution of Earth billions of years ago. One theory suggests that comets brought some of the water and a variety of organic molecules to the early Earth. Some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that take them much closer to the Sun — and therefore Earth -- than usual.
If a comet or asteroid's approach brings it to within 1. Some should also be fairly easy to land on for future exploration.
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