asteroid belt
A region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where the majority of asteroids in the Solar System are to be found. The main asteroid belt extends from 2.15 to 3.
Asteroid Belt
The main asteroid belt is estimated to contain millions of objects and is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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The asteroid belt is a doughnut-shaped concentration of asteroids orbiting the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, closer to the orbit of Mars, between 186 million to 370 million miles (300 million to 600 million km or 2 to 4 AU) from the Sun.
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The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter where 98.5% of the known minor planets' orbits can be found.
The Asteroid Belt
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Asteroids are often referred to as minor planets or planetoids.
Most asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a "Main Asteroid Belt" that is centered around 2.7 times the Earth-Sun distance (astronomical unit or AU) from Sol.
The fact that the asteroid belt has such a well-defined, high concentration of asteroids suggests two things.
Asteroid Belt. On July 15, 1972, Pioneer 10 entered the Asteroid Belt, a vast area of the Solar System orbiting like a huge doughnut around the Sun. The Belt is 175 million miles wide and 50 million miles thick.
asteroid belt Region of the solar system, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in which most asteroids are found.
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Asteroid Belt - The region of the solar system lying between 2.1 and 3.3 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. The great majority of asteroids are found in the asteroid belt ...
asteroid belt
the zone in which most asteroids orbit the sun, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
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Asteroid Belt
A region of space lying between Mars (1.5 AU) and Jupiter (5.2 AU), where the great majority of the asteroids are found. None of the belt asteroids have retrograde motion.
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The Asteroid Belt, The Kuiper Belt, And The Oort Cloud
You have probably heard about the Asteroid Belt. This band of asteroids sits between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.
MAIN ASTEROID BELT - Belt located between 2.12 and 3.3 AU (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) with the greatest concentration of asteroids.
Asteroid Belt
Delineating the boundary between the inner and outer planets.
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Jupiter's massive size ensures that it's gravity acts almost like a hoover for smaller planetary bodies in the solar system.
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The belt of asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are located.
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ASTEROID BELT
The asteroid belt is a doughnut-shaped concentration of orbiting the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (2.2 - 3.3 A.U.).
The asteroid belt is usually thought of as a defined region where asteroids abound (reference many science fiction movies, with spaceships flying in and out, dodging debris).
The asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter.
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The asteroid belt and the outermost part of the solar system should be thought of as long-lived though somewhat leaky reservoirs of meteoroidal bodies.
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The main asteroid belt (not shown) lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet): ...
The Main Asteroid Belt
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Some asteroids have orbits outside the main belt, either farther from or closer to the sun than the main belt. Those which approach Earth are called Near Earth Asteroids, NEAs.
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Through the asteroid belt and on to Jupiter
In November 1999 Cassini entered the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
regions in the asteroid belt within which few asteroids are found. Astronomer Daniel Kirkwood first observed (1886) that few asteroids had an orbital period close to 1/2, 1/3, or 2/5 that of Jupiter.
Narrow gaps in the asteroid belt created by orbital resonance with Jupiter
launch window - (n.)
The time opportunity for launching a spacecraft to another body in the Solar System involving minimal energy or the shortest flight time.
The term minor planet is preferred by many astronomers but asteroid continues to be used in astronomical literature, especially attributively, as in asteroid belt.
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The Asteroid Belt
The highest concentration of asteroids is in a region lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter called the asteroid belt that is illustrated schematically in the adjacent figure.
This is totally unlike our asteroid belt. Typical distances between large asteroids are on the order of millions of kilometers, not just a few feet.
The asteroid belt may be result of fragmentation of planetisimals that were prevented from growing larger by the close proximity of Jupiter's gravitational pull.
Those figures translate into a star with a radius of three Astronomical Units -- as big as the main asteroid belt -- and an initial mass of 40 times that of the Sun.
The Kuiper belt, the region's first formation, is a great ring of debris similar to the asteroid belt, but composed mainly of ice. It extends between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun.
The Kirkwood gaps are radial gaps in the asteroid belt. These gaps are orbital radii where the gravitational forces from Jupiter do not let asteroids orbit (they would be pulled into Jupiter).
They each refer to the small rocky bodies that are mainly confined to the asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter. The radius of the asteroid belt varies from 2.0 AU to 3.
Comets also are cosmic debris, probably planetesimals that originally resided in the vicinity of the orbits of Uranus and Neptune rather than in the warmer regions of the asteroid belt.
Most of the asteroids in our Solar System are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in an area known as the asteroid belt. They are thought to be the left over remains of a planet that was either destroyed or never fully formed.
Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, launched in 1972 and 1973, passed safely through the unexplored asteroid belt beyond the orbit of Mars and flew by Jupiter in December 1973 and December 1974.
The origin of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt lies in chaos. The standard is restricted (), circular, and planar and is a three-degree of freedom autonomous system with constant Hamiltonian (related to the Jacobi constant).
At least three planets and a dense asteroid belt encircle HD 69830, a star in the constellation Puppis, making the system one of the most similar to our solar system.
Infrared studies have shown that these bands are located between Mars and Jupiter in the region of the asteroid belt. IRAS found evidence of zodiacal dust bands around other stars as well. We now know that many stars have disks of dust around them.
Located between orbits of Mars and Jupiter (1.8 to 4.0 AU) in the "asteroid belt". Trojan Asteroids Two groups of asteroids located along the orbital path of Jupiter, 60 degrees ahead and behind the planet.
Many thousands of asteroids (or minor planets) circle the Sun, the majority of them streaming through the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
One group believes that the outer Solar System is everything beyond the main asteroid belt that orbits between Mars and Jupiter.
Kirkwood's gaps: Regions in the asteroid belt in which there are very few asteroids; caused by resonances with Jupiter.
Kuiper belt: The collection of icy planetesimals believed to orbit in a region from just beyond Neptune out to about 50 AU.
Most are in the Asteroid Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Many more share the orbit of Jupiter; they are known as the Trojan Asteroids. Some are closer to the Sun than the Earth's orbit; these are known as the Aten Asteroids.
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Many asteroids are found in the the space between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. This space is known as the 'asteroid belt'. However some asteroids are found outside the 'asteroid belt'.
The measured diameter of the star is about 7 AU, that is, about 670 million miles, or something greater than the diameter of the asteroid belt in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the solar system.
Small Rocky worlds, most of which lie between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.
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28. Asteroids
Small Rocky worlds, most of which lie between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.
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29. Astrometric Binary
A binary star identified by its irregular proper motion.
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