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The asteroids that travel before and behind the planet Jupiter are called the Trojan asteroids

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What planet have hundreds of Trojan asteroids circling along its orbit?

Jupiter has hundreds of Trojan asteroids circling along its orbit. These Trojans are located in two groups ahead of and behind Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun.


What is the most important defining property of Trojan asteroids?

Trojan asteroids are a group of asteroids that share the same orbit as a larger planet, located at stable Lagrange points ahead of or behind the planet. This unique orbital configuration is the most important defining property of Trojan asteroids.


What planet are asteroids located by?

Between mars and Jupiter


One theory about asteroids says that Jupiter's strong what prevented the asteroids from forming a planet?

gravity


Which planet is closest to a region of asteroids?

Orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter are closest to the region of asteroids.


What Small planet with orbits between mars and Jupiter?

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What has Jupiter's gravity may have kept asteroids from forming?

A planet


Why is there a belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter?

The belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter exists due to the gravitational forces of Jupiter preventing the formation of a planet in that region.


Is the planet Jupiter a monster?

yes, the planet Jupiter is a monster because it stopped all the asteroids in over solar system from becoming in to a planet so that's why it is a monster


What planet is just behind Jupiter?

The planet after Jupiter is Saturn followed by Uranus and finally Neptune.


What do you call chunks of rock and ice that orbit around a planet?

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Which planet holds many asteroids within its gravitational pull?

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