EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -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. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -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 is estimated to contain between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, and millions of smaller ones.

Detailed explanation-3: -There is a torus (donut-shaped) region in the outer solar system beyond the disk of planets which contains more than 100, 000 large icy bodies. It is known as the Kuiper Belt.

Detailed explanation-4: -There may be millions of these icy objects, collectively referred to as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in this distant region of our solar system.

Detailed explanation-5: -The name of the asteroid belt is the asteroid belt, although sometimes it is called the inner asteroid belt, the main asteroid belt, or simply the main belt. The name of the asteroid belt is more of a description of what it is, rather than a proper name, like the ones given to the Kuiper belt or the Oort cloud.