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SOLAR SYSTEM
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The Kupier Belt
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The Oort Cloud
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The Planetary Rings
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The Asteroid Belt
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most asteroids in our solar system can be found in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids hang out in other places, too. For example, some asteroids are found in the orbital path of planets. This means that the asteroid and the planet follow the same path around the sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The asteroid belt got its name because well, it contains asteroids and wraps around the Sun like a belt. The name asteroid was coined by Sir William Herschel as the newly discovered objects did not resolve into planetary discs even under high magnification and remained small points of light, just like stars do.
Detailed explanation-4: -The belt probably contains at least 40, 000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is captured by the gravitational pull of a planet, the asteroid can be pulled out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon around the planet that pulled on it.