Identify the FALSE statement. Asteroids:

are rocky or metallic bodies, meters to kilometers in diameter.

orbit in a belt between Jupiter and Saturn.

probably didn't accrete into a planet because Jupiter's gravity interfered.

are irregular in shape, not spherical.
number in the millions.


orbit in a belt between Jupiter and Saturn.
(they actually orbit between Mars and Jupiter)

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The Miocene is a(n)

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A. (a)
B. (b)
C. (c)
D. (d)

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