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My daughter georgia who is 12 ask, is there any asteroids around the SUN that might be thrown into earth collision by solar plasma ejection? Or is something like that possible?

Great picture and we will be watching.

What an insightful question! I'd imagine close in to the sun, the heat would break up large objects and they'd sort of join the mass ejection which DOES affect the earth's magnetosphere and communications and sometimes our power grid through induction. I know that astronauts on the space station have experienced direct visual impressions of xrays passing unhindered through the station's densest shielding during flare activity...Against closed eyelids they experienced flashes bright enough to keep them up at night...One guy even slept with a lead battery between his head and the sun!
Talk about a flash of inspiration! Its GOOD to have a nice pad of atmosphere to burn up little presents from our personal fusion furnace!

any asteroids around the SUN that might be thrown into earth collision by solar plasma ejection?

Solar plasma would be highly energetic, but it is also very thin. A lot of extremely hot gas spread out over a very large volume of space. A solar plasma ejection could affect electronics, blow a microcircuit, things like that. It is not dense enough to modify an asteroid's orbit enough to collide with earth, UNLESS the asteroid's orbit were already close to intersecting earth's orbit anyway.