What is the asteroid belt?
The asteroid belt has billions maybe even trillions of rocks circulating between mars and Jupiter. Another name for the asteroid belt is main belt. The asteroid belt is long. It is centered between mars and Jupiter around 280 million miles.
How was the asteroid belt formed?
The asteroid belt formed the same way the planets formed. After the sun had formed, energy was passed to the surrounding gas and dust left over from the nebula. It began to stick together during collisions to form planetesimals which again is large rock and metal. The asteroid belt is about 5.5 billion years old.
What is in the asteroid belt?
Most asteroids are the remains of planetesimals, which is bodies of rock and metal that predated the planets during the formation of our solar system. The asteroid belt also contains lots of ice chunks. comets are in the asteroid belt as well.
There are about 220 asteroids that roam around in the asteroid belt that are bigger than 100km. One asteroid that was photographed was 10 miles long.
Ceres, a dwarf planet found in the asteroid belt is about 1000km across.
The four largest objects in the asteroid belt are Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea. They are dwarf planets that make up the mass of the asteroid belt.
The asteroid belt has billions maybe even trillions of rocks circulating between mars and Jupiter. Another name for the asteroid belt is main belt. The asteroid belt is long. It is centered between mars and Jupiter around 280 million miles.
How was the asteroid belt formed?
The asteroid belt formed the same way the planets formed. After the sun had formed, energy was passed to the surrounding gas and dust left over from the nebula. It began to stick together during collisions to form planetesimals which again is large rock and metal. The asteroid belt is about 5.5 billion years old.
What is in the asteroid belt?
Most asteroids are the remains of planetesimals, which is bodies of rock and metal that predated the planets during the formation of our solar system. The asteroid belt also contains lots of ice chunks. comets are in the asteroid belt as well.
There are about 220 asteroids that roam around in the asteroid belt that are bigger than 100km. One asteroid that was photographed was 10 miles long.
Ceres, a dwarf planet found in the asteroid belt is about 1000km across.
The four largest objects in the asteroid belt are Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea. They are dwarf planets that make up the mass of the asteroid belt.
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