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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Near Earth Asteroid Formation, Heating from Radioactive Elements & Solar Activity melted Ice within Asteroids, Asteroid Belt between Mars & Jupiter formed in First Few Million Years of Solar System History, Clays & Aqueous Alteration Minerals produce Present Day Surface Materials, Liquid Water created Clays & Aqueous Alteration Minerals, Heating from Radioactive Elements & Solar Activity produced Surface Lavas, Silicate Mantles, Iron Cores, Dust Grains & Ices coalesced to form Small Asteroids (Planetesimals), Surface Lavas, Silicate Mantles, Iron Cores produce Present Day Surface Materials, Ice within Asteroids may still be present in Asteroid Interiors, Small Asteroids (Planetesimals) preserve Largely Unaltered Minerals, Organics, Condensation of Solar Nebula 4.6 BY Ago formed Dust Grains & Ices, Small Asteroids (Planetesimals) coalesced to form Asteroid Parent Bodies, Asteroid Parent Bodies give rise to Current Near Earth Asteroid Population, Ice within Asteroids formed Liquid Water, Formation of Asteroids followed by (in some cases) Heating from Radioactive Elements & Solar Activity, Liquid Water may still be present in Asteroid Interiors, Formation of Asteroids began in Asteroid Belt between Mars & Jupiter, Formation of Asteroids begins with Condensation of Solar Nebula 4.6 BY Ago