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You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Asteroids are bodies of rock which can measure anything up to 600 miles across and which orbit the sun. Fewer than 10,000 of the asteroids which could one day pose a threat to the Earth have so far been identified.