Why did the asteroid is between planet mars and Jupiter?

Answer 1

The asteroid belt is a failed planet, the material on that orbit never managed to clump together into a planet because Jupiter's gravity kept the material stirred up, every time Jupiter passes the material that's trying to coagulate is pulled outwards again, and the result is a belt of asteroids. Jupiter can also rattle some of these asteroids loose and send them flying around the solar system for a time. most are very small, but at least one is large enough to have become spherical under its own gravity.

Answer 2

Yes. The most visible asteroid belt in the solar system is the "main" Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. The dwarf planet Ceres is the largest of the bodies in the Belt.

However, there is also a larger area past the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt, which likewise contains many thousands of asteroids. The majority of asteroids within planetary orbits have been swept up, but there are still many thousands of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun at any given distance.

Answer 3

That is not known for sure, but one possible answer is is that the space between Mars and Jupiter is where gravitational forces of the Sun and Jupiter come close to balancing - hence much of the rocky debris from the early days of our solar system wound up in orbit there - balanced between the gravitational forces of the two.

Answer 4

The asteroids there orbit the sun. An object that is in an orbit around another object will naturally tend to keep that orbit unless something else disturbs it. Although there are gravitational disturbances and occasional collisions within the asteroid belt, most of these disturbances are not large enough to send an asteroid's orbit out of the asteroid belt.

Answer 5

Jupiter's gravity prevents them from coming together to form a planet.

Answer 6

asteroids are between mars and Jupiter because of some of their moon

Answer 7

because juiper has more gravity then the artsiod belt that's why there is astriod chunk also some scientist say that there were no planet between mars and jupiter

Answer 8

A lot of smaller dwarf planets formed between Mars and Jupiter, but Jupiter's great gravity tore them apart to make the asteroids.