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Asteroid Facts

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Main Asteroid Belt: The majority of known asteroids orbit within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, generally with not very elongated orbits. The belt ...
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Asteroid Belts (Illustration) - NASA Science
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/asteroid-belts-illustration
Ceres (Dawn). Ceres is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will ...
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Illustration of Asteroid Belts - NASA Science
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The main asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, and Trojan asteroids both lead and follow Jupiter. Scientists now know that asteroids were the ...
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Asteroid Belt - NASA Science
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Artist's graphic of the asteroid belt, part of Dawn's Mission Art series.
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Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size are Friendly to Life - NASA Science
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The asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter, is a region of millions of space rocks that sits near the “snow line," which marks the ...
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Tracking Evolution in the Asteroid Belt - NASA Science
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Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a large concentration of asteroids, which are conglomerates of rock and ice that hold clues to the formation of ...
Asteroids

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Most asteroids can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. Asteroids range in size from Vesta – the largest at ...
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Fact Sheet: Dawn to the Asteroid Belt - NASA Science
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Many thousands of small bodies orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt—a large region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They formed at the same time and in ...
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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut's Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More - NASA Science
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Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt.
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Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteroid Belt - NASA
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This illustration made on Nov. 26, 1974, by Rick Giudice shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft traveling through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the.
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt - NASA
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... asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The 138 new asteroids range from ...
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Picturing Our Solar System's Asteroid Belt - NASA
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Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting our Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. Asteroids range in size from Vesta – the ...
Chapter 1: The Solar System - NASA Science

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The Main Asteroid Belt ... Some asteroids have orbits outside the main belt, either farther from or closer to the Sun than the main belt. Those which approach ...
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Asteroid Belt - NASA Science
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Artist's graphic of the asteroid belt, part of NASA's Dawn Mission Art series. Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in ...
Asteroids: Exploration - NASA Science

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... asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Lucy. NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids ...
Asteroid Psyche

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One of the most intriguing objects in the main asteroid belt, Psyche is a giant metal rich asteroid, about three times farther away from the Sun than is Earth.
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Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids - NASA Science
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... asteroid is swimming along a curved trajectory. The uncharted asteroid is in inside the asteroid belt in our solar system, and hence is 10 trillion times ...
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NASA’s Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End - NASA
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and ...
Asteroid and Comet Resources

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Explore the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh through the eyes of the Lucy spacecraft. Watch. Illustration of a gold and blue spacecraft orbiting Earth ...
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Scenarios for the Evolution of Asteroid Belts - NASA Science
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In the third illustration, a large planet does not migrate at all, creating a massive asteroid belt. Material from the hefty asteroid belt would bombard planets ...

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