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What planet has an asteroid belt between it and jupiter?
The planet Mars orbits immediately closer to the Sun than the Asteroid Belt. The so-called "main belt" has many millions of asteroids, the remnants of a failed planetoid that might have formed between Mars and Jupiter.Mars. The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Is the asteroid belt included in your Solar System?
Yes, the asteroid belt orbits between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are rocky bodies varying from many miles in size to small rocks, orbiting the Sun.
What belt of these is found between Mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids. There are many thousand in the Main Belt that occupies an empty orbit between Mars and Jupiter. The largest asteroid, Ceres, has been classified as a "dwarf planet" and contains about 1/3 of the total mass of asteroids in the Main Belt.
What is the difference between an asteroid and a asteroid belt?
An asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits the sun, while an asteroid belt is a region in our solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where many asteroids are found. The asteroid belt is like a "belt" of smaller objects orbiting the sun, with the largest asteroid being Ceres.
Is mars located inside or outside the asteroid belt?
Mars is located outside the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt is a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where many asteroids are located.
What is the belt with many rocks between Mars and Jupiter?
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This is found in between mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids are found orbiting the Sun in between Jupiter and Mars. So, the answer is "the Asteroid Belt".
Is mars the inside or outside of the asteroid belt?
Mars is on the inside of the asteroid belt.
Is Mars right next to Jupiter?
Sort of. Jupiter is the next planet in line after mars, but there are many millions of miles between them. There is also the asteroid belt in between the two planets.
How many AUs is the asteroid belt from the sun?
The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter and is about 2.2 to 3.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.
What is the space rock located mostly between mars and Jupiter?
The space rock located mostly between Mars and Jupiter is called an asteroid belt. This region is home to numerous rocky objects varying in size, with the largest asteroid being Ceres. The asteroids in this belt are remnants from the formation of the solar system.
Between what planets will you find the asteroid belt?
The largest collection of asteroids is found orbiting the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. The asteroids are like cars on the highway, except that they are thousands of miles apart on the average. Even so, sometimes the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is disturbed by the gravitational pull of a planet, or is involved in a collision, it can be thrown out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon. Some of Jupiter's many small moons were likely once asteroids.
