{"id":3968,"date":"2018-07-27T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austrinus.com\/?page_id=3968"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:54:18","slug":"cuerpos-menores","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/sistema-solar\/cuerpos-menores\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuerpos menores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-text  root-eb-text-avhtr\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-text-avhtr\"><div class=\"eb-text-wrapper eb-text-avhtr\" data-id=\"eb-text-avhtr\"><p class=\"eb-text\">Los cuerpos menores del Sistema Solar son aquellos que orbitan en torno al Sol y que no corresponden a un planeta, ni planeta enano ni sat\u00e9lite. Por lo tanto, son cuerpos menores los\u00a0<strong>cometas<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>asteroides<\/strong>\u00a0y\u00a0<strong>meteoroides<\/strong>. En base a la definici\u00f3n oficial de planeta por la Uni\u00f3n Astron\u00f3mica Internacional (IAU), es posible definir como cuerpo menor del Sistema Solar a \u00ab<em>todo cuerpo celeste que, sin ser sat\u00e9lite, no haya logrado suficiente tama\u00f1o\/masa para adoptar un equilibrio hidrost\u00e1tico<\/em>\u00ab.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-text  root-eb-text-8ku1u\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-text-8ku1u\"><div class=\"eb-text-wrapper eb-text-8ku1u\" data-id=\"eb-text-8ku1u\"><p class=\"eb-text\">Una particularidad de los cuerpos menores es que son muy peque\u00f1os, y por lo tanto dif\u00edciles de identificar. Son objetos que se siguen descubriendo continuamente y cuya cantidad total s\u00f3lo puede estimarse en base a modelos matem\u00e1ticos. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies-1024x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies-1024x402.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies-18x7.jpg 18w, https:\/\/austrinus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/minor-bodies.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-text  root-eb-text-uuzx4\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-text-uuzx4\"><div class=\"eb-text-wrapper eb-text-uuzx4\" data-id=\"eb-text-uuzx4\"><p class=\"eb-text\">Cada a\u00f1o se descubren cometas nuevos, los cuales provienen principalmente de la Nube de \u00d6ort; lo propio ocurre con los asteroides, que se hallan principalmente en el cintur\u00f3n entre Marte y J\u00fapiter, pero hay muchos otros sin una \u00f3rbita definida, otros cercanos a la Tierra (NEOs, Near-Earth Objects) y otros potencialmente peligrosos (PHAs, Potentially Hazardous Asteroids).<br><br>Por otro lado, el n\u00famero de meteoroides es pr\u00e1cticamente ilimitado, ya que comprende objetos de tama\u00f1o que va desde 100 \u00b5m hasta 50 m. Aqu\u00ed se encasilla la gran mayor\u00eda que terminan desintegr\u00e1ndose en la atm\u00f3sfera terrestre y generando destellos fugaces (de 1 a 3 segundos) conocidos como\u00a0<strong>meteoros<\/strong>.<br><br>Una descripci\u00f3n m\u00e1s completa de cada\u00a0integrante del grupo de los cuerpos menores, est\u00e1 disponible como parte de las subsecciones de la columna derecha.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7287,"parent":3942,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_saved":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3968","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9473,"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions\/9473"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}