Most of the asteroids within our solar system can be found within the Asteroid Belt. Located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the Asteroid Belt consists of millions of individual asteroids of varying sizes - from a speck of dust to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The largest object within the belt is a dwarf planet - Ceres - which has a mass of 9.47x1020kg and a diameter of 476.2km.
Mars and Jupiter
In between the planets Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt.
Earth is inside the asteroid belt which lies between Mars and Jupiter.
Main asteroid beltThe asteroid belt
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.
The asteroid belt lies 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.
Neptune lies beyond the asteroid belt, which makes it an outer planet.
Most of the asteroids within our solar system can be found within the Asteroid Belt. Located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the Asteroid Belt consists of millions of individual asteroids of varying sizes - from a speck of dust to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The largest object within the belt is a dwarf planet - Ceres - which has a mass of 9.47x1020kg and a diameter of 476.2km.
The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter, there is the asteroid belt. This is made up of millions of small rocks that are in a direct orbit around the sun. Most of these objects are boulder sized or smaller, but some are quite large. The largest is a Dwarf planet called Ceres, which is around 975km in diameter. Its the only one in the asteroid belt called a dwarf planet as it it big enough, and has enough gravity to make itself into a spherical shape.
Mars is an inner planet. It lies on the side of the asteroid belt which contains Earth, Venus, and Mercury. On the other side of the Asteroid Belt are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - which is no longer considered to be a planet, but a dwarf planet. These are the outer planets.
It is not that far away. The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.