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There are millions of asteroids and all are not the same distance from the sun. The asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is the main region but there are others besides these.

Many at the Lagrange points of Jupiter for instance. Which make these about 5.2 AU.

A few have been discovered at similar points in Mars orbit which makes these about 1.67 AU.

So most are between these two figures

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