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Question
In our solar system, the inter-planetary region has chunks of matter (much smaller in size compared to planets) called asteroids. They ______.
Options
will not move around the sun since they have very small masses compared to sun.
will move in an irregular way because of their small masses and will drift away into outer space.
will move around the sun in closed orbits but not obey Kepler’s laws.
will move in orbits like planets and obey Kepler’s laws.
Solution
In our solar system, the inter-planetary region has chunks of matter (much smaller in size compared to planets) called asteroids. They will move in orbits like planets and obey Kepler’s laws.
Explanation:
Because as we know asteroids move in orbits like planet which follows Kepler’s law as they act upon central gravitational forces.
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