Question 1: The vast majority of known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and ________, generally in relatively low-eccentricity (i.e., not very elongated) orbits.
This picture of 433 Eros shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m (115 ft) across can be seen.
Question 7: It has been suggested that asteroids might be used in the future as a source of materials which may be rare or exhausted on earth (________), or materials for constructing space habitats (see Colonization of the asteroids).
Question 8: The first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by ________, director of the observatory of Palermo in Sicily.
Question 10: The first close-up photographs of asteroid-like objects were taken in 1971 when the Mariner 9 probe imaged Phobos and Deimos, the two small moons of ________, which are probably captured asteroids.
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