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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 asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [16] [17] [18] An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [19] Small Solar System objects are classified by their orbits: [20] [21]
belt asteroid type G [83] Camilla 107: 105 ± 4: 11.2 ± 0.3: outer belt asteroid type C; trinary [122] · [123] Themis 24: 104 ± 2: 6.2 ± 2.9: belt asteroid type C [83] Amphitrite 29: 102 ± 1: 12.7 ± 2.0: belt asteroid type S [83] Egeria 13: 101 ± 2: 9.2 ± 2.1: belt asteroid type G [83] Iris 7: 100 ± 5: 13.5 ± 2.3: belt asteroid type S ...
A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system.. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed ...
Called a "mini-moon" of sorts by some, it temporarily entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth.
Fomalhaut asteroid belt is far more complex than researchers had realised Nasa’s James Webb telescope looks at asteroid belt outside our solar system – and finds surprise Skip to main content
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.
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.Gaspra was discovered by Russian astronomer G. N. Neujmin in 1916. Neujmin named it after Gaspra, a Black Sea retreat that was visited by his contemporaries, such as Gorky and Tolstoy.