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Main Asteroid belt (main belt), between Mars and Jupiter, in near circular orbit, 2.2 to 3.2 AU Hungaria asteroids, small group, 1.78 to 2.00 AU; Alinda asteroids, small group, 2.5 AU in elliptical orbits; Hilda asteroid small group just inside Jupiter, 4.0 AU; Kuiper belt large belt, 43 to 64.5 AU; Scattered disc small group, 21.5 to 215 AU
This asteroid belt is also called the main asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish it from other asteroid populations in the Solar System. [ 1 ] The asteroid belt is the smallest and innermost known circumstellar disc in the Solar System.
282 Clorinde is a typical Main belt asteroid. [2] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 28 January 1889 in Nice.It was named after Clorinda, the heroine of Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Main belt: Orbital characteristics [1] ... 366 Vincentina is a fairly large main belt asteroid.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Main belt: Orbital characteristics [2] ... 392 Wilhelmina is a large Main belt asteroid.
215 Oenone is a typical main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Russian astronomer Viktor Knorre on April 7, 1880, in Germany, and was the second of his four asteroid discoveries. The asteroid is named after Oenone, a nymph in Greek mythology. [3] This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.60 years and a low ellipticity (ovalness) of ...
Collisions in the main asteroid belt send rocky fragments flying haphazardly through space, with some of those eventually striking Earth. "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had ...
331 Etheridgea is a large main belt asteroid. [1] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 1 April 1892 in Nice.The meaning of the name is unknown. [2] This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 3.02 AU with a period of 5.26 years and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.10.