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Asteroids (they should really be called "planetoids" since they're sort of failed planets, not failed stars) formed at the same time as the rest of the solar system and are the bits "left over" from the era of planetary accretion. The large number of them in the Asteroid BELT reflects the disruptive influence of Jupiter's gravity. If Jupiter have not been so massive (it's twice as massive as all the other planets combined), a planet would probably have formed there.

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