UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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The Kuiper Belt
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The Oort Cloud
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The Planetary Rings
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The Main Asteroid Belt
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -It is thought that the main asteroid belt is a leftover from the early Solar System when the strong gravitational influence of Jupiter prevented the planetesimals in this region from coalescing to form a planetary core.
Detailed explanation-3: -Other than the asteroid belt there are Trojan asteroids that are found in front of or behind a planet’s orbit. These Trojan asteroids occupy a special position called the Langragian points where the planetary and solar gravitation allow these asteroids to remain in that part of the planet’s orbit.