SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

METEORITES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where are most meteorites located?
A
Between Pluto and the Oort cloud
B
Between Jupiter and Mars
C
Between Earth and the Moon
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt .

Detailed explanation-2: -All meteorites come from inside our solar system. Most of them are fragments of asteroids that broke apart long ago in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Such fragments orbit the Sun for some time–often millions of years–before colliding with Earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the region between Mars and Jupiter, it appears that one or more planets could have formed, but the gravity from Jupiter kept pulling things apart. Instead of forming a single planet, the material in this region was only ever able to form into asteroid-sized objects.

Detailed explanation-4: -Comet 9P/Tempel 1 orbits the sun within the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Detailed explanation-5: -Asteroids are located between the planets Mars and Jupiter in a region known as the Main Asteroid Belt. It consists of millions of asteroids with size ranging from as small as a grain of dust to as large as the Mount Everest or even larger.

Detailed explanation-6: -The majority of asteroids originate from the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA.

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