UNIVERSE
METEORITES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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band of small icy rocks just passed Neptune
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donut shaped ring between mars and Jupiter made of asteroids
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nucleus made of frozen water, gas, dust, and rocky material passed mars
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None of the above
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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: -The main belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, roughly two to four times the Earth-sun distance, and spans a region about 140 million miles across. Objects in the belt are divided into eight subgroups named after the main asteroids in each group.
Detailed explanation-3: -The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun. The asteroid belt probably contains millions of asteroids.