Asteroids

Asteroids are chunks of rubble that in our Galaxy orbit around our Sun. Asteroids are a helpful ways to distinguish between the solid planets and the gas planets because the asteroid belt is enclosed around the four solid planets which is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. This leaves the gas planets on the other side of the belt which is Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. Asteroids have been known to run into Earth on many occasions and sometimes even daily, the reason why we don’t hear about this is because they are just such small asteroids that they burn up before getting through our atmosphere.