GK
SOLAR SYSTEM
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Question
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This space is where the pull of gravity from the Sun and from Jupiter are equal
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The asteroids use to be a planet, but the planet exploded in a collision billions of years ago.
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The asteroids are in this space because Jupiter has more gravitational pull than the Sun.
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The space has room for another planet, and the asteroids are slowly forming into a new planet.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sun and Jupiter are extremely huge bodies due to which they exert strong gravity on the objects close to them. This gravitational force did not allow rocks to clump up to form a planet when our solar system was formed and hence, the asteroid belts were formed.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the asteroid belt form? Early in the life of the solar system, dust and rock circling the sun were pulled together by gravity into planets. But not all of the ingredients created new worlds. A region between Mars and Jupiter became the asteroid belt.
Detailed explanation-3: -The asteroid belt exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It has a large number of asteroids as well as some minor planets.
Detailed explanation-4: -First of all, there’s not enough total mass in the belt to form a planet. Second, the belt is too close to Jupiter. We haven’t counted every tiny asteroid by a long shot, but we can estimate the mass of the belt from the asteroids we see and by monitoring the orbits of both Mars and Earth.