Solar System Planets And Asteroid Belt

99 of the mass orbiting the sun is contained within those planets outside the asteroid belt. And that excludes saturn s diffuse outer e ring.

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It is thought that jupiter s strong gravitational influence may have prevented the asteroids coalescing into larger objects such as a planet.

Solar system planets and asteroid belt. All of these orbit the sun. The asteroid belt is a torus shaped region in the solar system located roughly between the orbits of the planets jupiter and mars that is occupied by a great many solid irregularly shaped bodies of many sizes but much smaller than planets called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt is the line that separates the inner and outer solar system.

Some asteroids do orbit in space near to earth and some are forced out of the asteroid belt by gravity and sent towards the outer solar system instead. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Between mars and jupiter lies the asteroid belt which is comprised of thousands of rocks left over from the formation of the solar system.

This asteroid belt is also called the main asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish it from other asteroid populations in the solar system such as near earth asteroids and trojan asteroids. Planets inside the asteroid belt are known as terrestrial planets they are rocky worlds with a metallic core. These rocks vary in size from microscopic up to ceres 950km diameter which is classified as a dwarf planet.

Artist s graphic of the asteroid belt part of dawn s mission art series. If saturn and its rings were placed between earth and moon they would barely fit. The asteroid belt is located between the inner and the outer planets and is home to thousands of rocks and debris known as asteroids and some of the dwarf planets.

They are also small.

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