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  2. List of Ready Jet Go! episodes - Wikipedia

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    When Face 9000 tells the kids about the Asteroid Belt, Sean realizes that the best way to learn about asteroids is to see them for himself. Celery flies them out to space, and the kids learn the difference between an asteroid, a meteor, and a meteorite. Worried at first, Sean learns that only the rare asteroid (called a meteorite) makes it all ...

  3. Asteroid belt - Wikipedia

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    The total mass of the asteroid belt is significantly less than Pluto's, and roughly twice that of Pluto's moon Charon. The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

  4. Solar System belts - Wikipedia

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    Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. [1] [2] The Solar System belts' size and placement are mostly a result of the Solar System having four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune far from the sun. The giant planets must be in the correct place, not too close ...

  5. Astronomers trace the origin of meteorites that have struck Earth

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    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 ...

  6. As Earth says goodbye to 'mini-moon,' asteroid's possible ...

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    Called a "mini-moon" of sorts by some, it temporarily entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth.

  7. Minor planet - Wikipedia

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    Asteroid belt, whose members follow roughly circular orbits between Mars and Jupiter. These are the original and best-known group of asteroids. Jupiter trojans, asteroids sharing Jupiter's orbit and gravitationally locked to it. Numerically they are estimated to equal the main-belt asteroids.

  8. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The Kuiper belt is a great ring of debris similar to the asteroid belt, but consisting mainly of objects composed primarily of ice. [195] It extends between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun. It is composed mainly of small Solar System bodies, although the largest few are probably large enough to be dwarf planets. [196]

  9. (248370) 2005 QN173 - Wikipedia

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    (248370) 2005 QN 173 is a main belt asteroid that undergoes recurrent comet-like activity near perihelion, [4] [5] and is now designated comet 433P/(248370) 2005 QN 173. [6] This object was discovered on 29 August 2005 by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at Palomar Observatory. [1]