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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.
The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [16] [17] [18] An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [19]
Most highly inclined known main-belt asteroid from August 17, 1998, to October 19, 1998 MPC (88043) 2000 UE 110: 51.998° October 29, 2000 First main-belt asteroid discovered and numbered to have an inclination greater than 50°. MPC (138925) 2001 AU 43: 72.132° January 4, 2001 A Mars-crosser and near-Earth object. MPC (127546) 2002 XU 93: 77 ...
Fomalhaut asteroid belt is far more complex than researchers had realised Nasa’s James Webb telescope looks at asteroid belt outside our solar system – and finds surprise Skip to main content
Inner asteroid belt, inside of the strong Kirkwood gap at 2.50 AU due to the 3:1 Jupiter orbital resonance. The largest member is 4 Vesta . It apparently also includes a group called the main-belt I asteroids which have a semi-major axis between 2.3 AU and 2.5 AU and an inclination of less than 18°.
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.
An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet's orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...
belt asteroid type C [83] Patientia 451: 112.9 ± 2.3: 10.9 ± 5.3: belt asteroid type C [122] · [123] Psyche 16: 112 ± 2: 26.2 ± 2.9: belt asteroid type M [83] Ceto 65489: 112 ± 5: 5.4 ± 0.4: extended centaur; binary [91] · [124] Herculina 532: 111.2 ± 2.4: belt asteroid type S [125] S/2007 (148780) 1 Altjira I: 110 +17 −62: secondary ...