Pictures of Asteroids & Minor Planets - Asteroids Images

Asteroids are rocky fragments left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of these fragments of ancient space rubble can be found orbiting the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. This region in our solar system, called the Asteroid Belt or Main Belt, probably contains millions of asteroids ranging widely in size from Ceres, which at 940 km in diameter is…

Pictures of Asteroids.

Astronomy Pictures and Images of some of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter.