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What is the belt with many rocks between Mars and Jupiter?

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What are the rocks between Jupiter and Mars?

The rocks between Mars and Jupiter are known as the asteroid belt. Many of the asteroids are grouped into families. Examples of asteroid families include Flora, Eunoma, Koronis, Eos and Themis.


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".


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 of these terms refers to the ring of celestial objects that orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter?

The asteroid belt is what is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.


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.


Were rocks with iron once part of the asteroid belt?

Occasionally they might be, as iron-rich meteorites may have originated as part of asteroids, though not necessarily from between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. However many Earth rocks contain iron.


Area between mars and Jupiter where many asteroids are located?

We call that the "asteroid belt".


What is the gap called between 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.


Between what two planets does the asteroid belt lie?

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.


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.