What is an asteroid? Where are most located?

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Asteroids are small rocky l bodies orbiting sun.

Explanation:

Largset may be 900 kilometer in size and mostly very small ones
They orbit in Sun between Mars and Jupiter...THis area is known as Asteroid belt,enter image source here
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Oct 17, 2016

When our star Sun was young, small countless planetesimals

orbiting the Sun coalesced, conjoined and aggregated to form

bigger planetoids, larger midget planets and very large

planets..

Smaller starfish like rocky planetoids are called asteroids

Most of the known asteroids are orbiting the Sun, in-between the

orbits of Mars and Jupiter..

Sans satellites and rings of their own system, by definition,

planets had cleared such smaller orbiters, at the least, in

the space between (nearest-to-Sun) perihelion and ( farthest-from-

Sun ) aphelion.

Very large Ceres, recent discovery Vesta and very massive Apophis

are notable, among the innumerable asteroids.