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Does the asteroid belt have an effect on the outer planets being bigger?
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∙ 15y ago
The asteroid belt does not have an effect on the outer planets being bigger. It just has an effect on the outer planets being colder.
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What is the asteroid belt evidence of?
Some people (including me) are led to believe that when the planets were being made, there were hundreds. These planets smashed into each other to basically start a planet war. The only ones that were left were our current 9 planets, and the rest settled out to become the asteroid belt.
What effect did being hit by an asteroid have on the Earth?
well it changed the earth to the earth we have today
Which planets hold a belt between mars and Jupiter?
The asteroid belt is between mars and Jupiter and no planet holds it in position it's actually orbiting the sun it best imagined looking at Saturn with the planet being the sun and the moons the planets and the rings the asteroid belt it's all the planet.
How are space probes to the outer planets such as Jupiter protected from being obliterated by collisions with asteroids in the asteroid belt?
They are not protected from collisions. What helps is that the average distance between asteroids is immense, such that one asteroid is not likely visible to the naked eye to the next nearest asteroid. There is so much space between asteroids the ships generally pass through without any problem. Actually, the rings of Saturn are also so tenuous that the Cassini spacecraft has passed through them with no ill effect, and they are MUCH denser than the asteroid belt.
What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?
Nothing officially separates them but most asteroids are between Mars and Jupiter.There is no planet separating the Outer planets. Outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and this are gas giant. Asteroid belt consists of asteroid and Ceres, the Dwarf planet so an Dwarf planet and Asteroid belt separates the Planets.
What is the motion of asteriods?
Like all orbiting bodies, an asteroid moves in an ellipse. Compared to the planets, these orbits have a higher probability of being more eccentric ("stretched out", further from being a circle). That is why some asteroids cross the orbit of the earth. Most asteroids move in near-circular orbits between Mars and Jupiter. A close approach to another asteroid or one of these planets can alter the orbit to a more eccentric one.
How come being so much farther from the sun would effect the outer planets?
The outer planets are colder, and life cannot be supported there in such cold conditions.
Are planets more likely to be gas giants or terrestrial planets?
Bigger planets are more likely to be gas giants while smaller ones are more likely to be terrestrial. This of course is not the answer to your question which is, of all planets that may exist, is there a greater likelyhood of there being terrestrial planets or gas giants?
How does the size of an asteroid compare with the size of the sun and the planets in the solar system order of size smallest first?
Asteroids are typically only a few metres to a few hundred metres across. The largest ones may be a few hundred km across, with the largest asteroid being a dwarf planet called Ceres (974km across. Planets are larger than asteroids, from around 4878km across (Mercury's diameter - the smallest) to around 22,400 km in diameter (Jupiter - the largest). The Sun is much bigger again, with a diameter of 1,392,000 km.
Do asteroid revolve around the sun?
The same as planets - they move around the Sun in ellipses, the Sun being in one of the focal points of the ellipse. Read about Kepler's Laws for more details.
Planets are studied in the scientific discipline called?
Astronomy
Are the moons in the solar system larger than the planets?
No. Only some moons are bigger than Mercury, being the smallest planet.
