millions of millions of millions of millions... ten hours later... of millions of millions of dollars. the asteroid belt is giganitic. to get rid of it would be one of the hardest things in the world and an asteroid is like a dwarf planet. it would be an enormous amount to get rid of one.
The gravity in the asteroid belt is much weaker than on Earth due to its scattered and small mass. Objects in the asteroid belt experience very low gravity, with most asteroids having too little mass to exert a significant gravitational force on one another.
The mass would not change!
There is a "dwarf planet", Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, and a great number of smaller rocks. (Prior to its reclassification, Ceres was referred to as the largest asteroid.)
No, the total mass of all the asteroids in the asteroid belt is estimated to be less than 4% of the mass of the Moon. Even if all the asteroids were combined, they would still be much smaller than the Moon.
There are multiple theories for the material in the asteroid belt. First, note that the entire mass of the asteroid belt objects is a few percent of Earth's mass -- what is there today would not form much of a planet. One fairly good theory is that a planet did have an irregular orbit with the highest part where the asteroid belt is today. However, the planet's highly elliptical orbit brought it across the orbits of Mars and Earth. It collided with Earth, leaving much of its mass in the Earth but also spewing out material that eventually formed our Moon. A small portion of the material survives in the asteroid belt and as the small moons of Mars.
The gravity in the asteroid belt is much weaker than on Earth due to its scattered and small mass. Objects in the asteroid belt experience very low gravity, with most asteroids having too little mass to exert a significant gravitational force on one another.
No. The largest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres. Ida is much smaller.
The mass would not change!
Yes. Ceres is the only dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt.
There is a "dwarf planet", Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, and a great number of smaller rocks. (Prior to its reclassification, Ceres was referred to as the largest asteroid.)
The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. As such, the outer planets (or Jovian planets) can be said to be outside the asteroid belt. That is, they are located beyond the belt and are therefore further away from the sun than the belt.
No. The asteroid belt is an area between Mars and Jupiter where most of the solar system's asteroids orbit. The Kupier belt is much farther out. It is a region that contains a large number of comets orbiting beyond Neptune.
Yes much bigger.
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The Kuiper Belt is larger than a single asteroid. The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies and dwarf planets, while an asteroid is a much smaller rocky and metallic object typically found in the inner solar system.
Currently the combined mass of all the asteroids in the asteroid belt is much less than that of any planet, though there were probably many more asteroids in the belt when the solar system was young. One of the leading hypotheses is that gravitational disturbances from Jupiter prevented a planet from forming where the asteroid belt is.
No, the total mass of all the asteroids in the asteroid belt is estimated to be less than 4% of the mass of the Moon. Even if all the asteroids were combined, they would still be much smaller than the Moon.