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The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter, roughly two to four times the Earth-sun distance, spanning a region about 140 million miles across.
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It contains many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets, with an average distance of one million kilometers (or six hundred thousand miles) apart.
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It is thought to be a remnant left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
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The inner edge of the asteroid belt begins at the orbit of Mars and the outer edge ends at the orbit of Jupiter.
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The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The identified objects are of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, and on average are about one million kilometers (or six hundred thousand miles) apart. This asteroid belt is also called the main asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish it from other asteroid populations in the Solar System.
Asteroid belt - Wikipedia
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The main belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, roughly two to four times the Earth-sun distance, and spans a region about 140 million miles across. Objects in the belt are divided into eight subgroups named after the main asteroids in each group.
Asteroid belt: Facts & formation | Space
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Asteroids are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. NASA has launched several missions to explore the solar system, such as the Lucy Mission and the Psyche mission, as well as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). These missions have allowed us to gain a better understanding of the solar system and its many small bodies of rock, metal and ice.
Overview | Asteroids – NASA Solar System Exploration
nasa.gov
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The asteroid belt is located between the inner and the outer planets and is home to thousands of rocks and debris known as asteroids and some of the dwarf planets. All of these orbit the Sun .
Some asteroids do orbit in space near to Earth and some are forced out of the asteroid
Asteroid Belt Facts | What Is It?, How Is It Formed?, How Many & Location
nineplanets.org
The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun. The …
What is the asteroid belt? | Cool Cosmos
caltech.edu
