Asteroid/Legends

"Asteroids ahead! Shields to double-front!"

- A Y-wing pilot

An asteroid was a solid object orbiting a star that was smaller than a planet, ranging from dozens of meters to hundreds of kilometers in size. Asteroids were often found in an asteroid belt within a star system. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett had an epic dogfight in an asteroid field off Geonosis. The asteroids resulted in Kenobi fooling Jango into thinking he had destroyed the Jedi Knight. During the Galactic Civil War, Han Solo escaped from Death Squadron by flying into an asteroid field.

Smaller versions of asteroids were meteoroids, which became meteors or meteor showers in atmospheres, and meteorites on impact with planets.

Behind the scenes
In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, at least one potato was used to portray the asteroids of the Hoth asteroid field.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Star Wars: Starfighter
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
 * Outbound Flight
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * "The Brink"
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * Han Solo at Stars' End
 * Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire
 * The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning
 * Star Wars: X-wing
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars: X-wing Alliance
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * The Last Command
 * Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
 * Darksaber
 * Specter of the Past
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Han Solo's Rescue Mission