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No, an asteroid field is not spherical; it typically consists of a collection of irregularly shaped asteroids scattered throughout a three-dimensional space. These fields can vary in density and distribution, often resembling a belt or cloud rather than a uniform sphere. The most well-known example is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which is more of a flattened disk than a spherical region.

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