Gallery of asteroid images

Britannica School data that includes:

• physical characteristics
• trojans
• near Earth asteroids
• spacecraft exploration

Amazing Space: Asteroid Ida

Amazing Space: Asteroid Vesta

Amazing Space: Asteroid Eros

Asteroids in the asteroid belt.

Asteroids. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1300360/1/132_1300360/cite. Accessed 17 Sep 2020.

Asteroids approaching a planet.

Asteroids. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1300019/1/132_1300019/cite. Accessed 17 Sep 2020.

Asteroid deflection, stand-off explosion.

Asteroid deflection, stand-off explosion. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1294674/1/132_1294674/cite. Accessed 17 Sep 2020.

Binary asteroid 90 Antiope

Binary asteroid 90 Antiope, artwork. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1339070/1/132_1339070/cite. Accessed 17 Sep 2020.

Asteroids orbiting the Sun

Asteroids orbiting the Sun. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1296187/1/132_1296187/cite. Accessed 17 Sep 2020.

Image of more than 100 asteroids captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, during its primary all-sky survey in 2014.

What's the Difference Between Asteroids, Comets and Meteors? Live Science, https://www.livescience.com/difference-between-asteroids-comets-and-meteors.html.  Accessed Sept. 18, 2020.

Asteroids in Inner Solar System

Diagram: Asteroids in Inner Solar System. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, 2008. SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2271833027?accountid=147606.

Asteroid Impacts

Asteroid Impacts. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, 1998. SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2254706186?accountid=147606.