Bodies that form closer to the sun tend to be made up of a harder material. Nearly all asteroids are irregular in shape and heavily blemished by the impacts of craters. There are only a handful of asteroids that are large enough to have a strong enough gravity to pull them into spherical shapes (www.scienceclarified.com). Some other ways of classifying asteroids is by the type of asteroid it is. The majority of asteroids that have been discovered are solid; however, there are some known as rubble piles. A rubble pile is where loose pieces of rock are held together by the force of gravity. There also been many discoveries of asteroids that are called doubles, this means that they are two asteroids that are similar in size that have drifted together and now orbit around each other as they orbit around the sun
Bodies that form closer to the sun tend to be made up of a harder material. Nearly all asteroids are irregular in shape and heavily blemished by the impacts of craters. There are only a handful of asteroids that are large enough to have a strong enough gravity to pull them into spherical shapes (www.scienceclarified.com). Some other ways of classifying asteroids is by the type of asteroid it is. The majority of asteroids that have been discovered are solid; however, there are some known as rubble piles. A rubble pile is where loose pieces of rock are held together by the force of gravity. There also been many discoveries of asteroids that are called doubles, this means that they are two asteroids that are similar in size that have drifted together and now orbit around each other as they orbit around the sun