How long would it take to travel from the earth to the asteroid belt?

Answer 1

It's difficult to be precise as the asteroids are spread about quite a lot. [See related link]

The main belt starts just after Mars and finishes half way to Jupiter, but fragments called the Trojans, lie in the orbit of Jupiter.

So; for a ball park figure, the asteroid belt starts at about 90 million kilometers (56 Million miles) from Earth.

Answer 2

The time it would take to travel from Earth to the asteroid belt varies depending on the speed of the spacecraft and the specific location of the asteroid belt at the time. With current technology, it would take several months to a few years to reach the asteroid belt.

Answer 3

Enormous. We can't be sure; the "Kuiper belt" is a region in space out beyond the orbit of Pluto, roughly toroidal ("doughnut shaped") in which we expect to find vast numbers of rocks and cometary bodies. We've never sent any probes out that far, but we expect to find a number of "dwarf planet" sized objects and uncountable numbers of smaller objects. The inner diameter is probably around 40AU, but we cannot know what the outer diameter might be.

Answer 4

That's difficult to say, precisely; it isn't a well-defined area, but sort of a giant doughnut-shaped area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Say, between 2AU from the Sun to 4AU out. Anything much further out would eventually be perturbed out of its orbit by Jupiter, and anything closer in would be affected by Mars. But there are irregular asteroids - millions of them certainly, and we CANNOT know how many - that orbit anywhere between Mercury to Neptune or beyond.

Answer 5

The "Asteroid Belt" is the region of the solar system located roughly between

the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Therefore . . .

-- The length of the orbit of any asteroid within the belt is longer than

the length of Mars' orbit, and shorter than the length of Jupiter's orbit.

-- Similarly, the period of revolution for any asteroid that's well-behaved

enough to stay within the belt is longer than the period of Mars' revolution,

and shorter than Jupiter's.

Answer 6

The asteroids are in orbit round the Sun obeying Kepler's laws like the planets and everything else. The asteroids between Mars and Jupiter - the majority - have orbital periods between those of Mars and Jupiter, which is between 1¾ years and 11¾ years.

Answer 7

Each individual member of the asteroid 'belt' ... and there may be millions of them ...

revolves around the sun in its own orbit and with its own orbital period.

Most of them stay between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and their orbital periods

are between 2 years and 12 years.

Answer 8

There are different asteroids that come in at different times so there really is no definite diameter.

Another answer:

It is 12552.8 km.

Answer 9

hmm....lemme guess......1oo and 2000 earth days >:D

Answer 10

A little over 12 minutes to the nearest part of it.