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  2. Asteroid belt - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Solar System belts - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System belts were formed in the formation and evolution of the Solar System. [6] [7] The Grand tack hypothesis is a model of the unique placement of the giant planets and the Solar System belts. [3] [4] [8] Most giant planets found outside our Solar System, exoplanets, are inside the snow line, and are called Hot Jupiters.

  4. List of exceptional asteroids - Wikipedia

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    Most highly inclined known main-belt asteroid from 1998/10/19-2007/11/01 MPC (467372) 2004 LG: 70.725° June 9, 2004 A Mercury-through Mars-crosser and near-Earth object. MPC: 2007 VR 6: 68.659° November 1, 2007 Most highly inclined known main-belt asteroid from November 1, 2007, to September 26, 2008 MPC: 2008 SB 85: 74.247° September 26, 2008

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

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    "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had been clearly identified by their composition as coming from the moon, Mars, or Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid belt.

  6. Grand tack hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter's migration across the asteroid belt increases the eccentricities and inclinations of the asteroids, resulting in a 0.5 Myr period of impact velocities sufficient to vaporize metals. If the formation of CB chondrites was due to Jupiter's migration it would have occurred 4.5-5 Myrs after the formation of the Solar System. [29]

  7. Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid ...

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    The impactor likely formed in the outer solar system before migrating to the asteroid belt. A team of researchers think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off ...

  8. Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as ... - AOL

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    For instance, one such space rock 2022 NX 1 was a short-lived “mini-moon” in 1981 and again in 2022. ... They suspect it comes from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a sparse population of small near ...

  9. Contact binary (small Solar System body) - Wikipedia

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    Among the distant minor planets, the icy Kuiper belt object Arrokoth was confirmed to be a contact binary when the New Horizons spacecraft flew past in 2019. [1] The small main-belt asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh was confirmed to have the first known contact binary satellite after the Lucy probe flew by it on November 1, 2023. [31]