Before you call the contractor and start picking out float toys, letâs make sure you know what youâre getting into. The average in-ground swimming pool costs $21,919, according to home improvement site Fixr. And thatâs for a pretty basic 32â by 16â model. But thatâs just to build the thing. Then you have to take care of it.
The large majority of known asteroids orbit in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, or are co-orbital with Jupiter (the Jupiter trojans). However, other orbital families exist with significant populations, including the near-Earth objects.
Asteroids may be made of rock and metal, but theyâre still breakable. A team of astronomers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to study the asteroid P/2013 R3, which recently fragmented into 10 or more pieces. Four images of P/2013 R3 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope on four different dates.