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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9566129" data-attributes="member: 7044704">That's not really helpful in terms of defining size.  Real world asteroids vary tremendously in size, from ones smaller than that astereater above to over 580 miles in average diameter in the case of Ceres - and that's just the ones we've spotted in our own system, which are a tiny fraction of the estimated 1-2 million bodies at least a half mile in diameter occupying the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.  There's nothing but guesswork on how many smaller bodies there may be, and different scientists have differing definitions of how small they go before they're properly considered something else - dust particles, for ex.How big are you after in terms of feet or meters for both adult and child?</blockquote>