Asteroid

An asteroid was a large solid object orbiting a star that was smaller than a planet. Asteroids could be found in asteroid fields, as well as around planets. Asteroids housed facilities such as the Polis Massa medical facility. Asteroids could support life, especially if they had their own thin atmosphere, with rocks and minerals forming the basis of many food chains. Many monstrous creatures dwelt within asteroids, with mynocks and fyrnocks thriving on asteroidsStar Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia and Space slugs also known to inhabit them.
==History==
Over the course of their existence, asteroids struck the eight moons of the Inner Rim gas giant planet Navlaas. Those eight moons, including the ice moon Laanen, were thus left scarred by asteroid impacts. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett had a dogfight in an asteroid field above Geonosis.
During the Galactic Civil War, Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, escaped from the Death Squadron by flying into the Hoth asteroid belt. By the time of the Battle of Hoth, there were no official records of exploration of the center of asteroids.The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? When Solo and his comrades entered what they believed to be a cave within the "Big One" asteroid, they discovered they had actually entered an exogorth named Sy-O and escaped, much to Sy-O's sorrow.
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
* LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
==Sources==
===Non-canon sources===
*LEGO Star Wars: Choose Your Side: Doodle Activity Book
==Notes and references==
Category:Types of astronomical objects