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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.
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 ...
At a diameter of 964 km, Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt and comprises about one-third of the belt's total mass. Ceres possesses sufficient gravity to form a rounded, ellipsoid shape, suggesting that it is close to being in hydrostatic equilibrium [ 6 ] —one of the conditions for defining a dwarf planet according to the ...
357 Ninina is a large main-belt asteroid. [1] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 11, 1893, in Nice. The reference of its name is not known, though Ninine is a French personal name. [2] This minor planet is orbiting at a distance of 3.16 AU from the Sun with a period of 5.61 years and an orbital eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.074.
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 ...
300 Geraldina is a large Main belt asteroid. [1] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on October 3, 1890, in Nice. The origin of the name is unknown. [2] It is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 3.21 AU with a period of 5.74 yr and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.057. The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 0.73° to the plane of the ...