UNIVERSE
METEOROIDS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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between Mercury and Venus
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between Earth and Mars
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Between Mars and Jupiter
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None of the above
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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: -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-3: -Orbit Around the Sun: Located between Mars and Jupiter, the belt ranges in distance between 2.2 and 3.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun – 329 million to 478.7 million km (204.43 million to 297.45 million mi).
Detailed explanation-4: -The main asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, and Trojan asteroids both lead and follow Jupiter. Scientists now know that asteroids were the original “building blocks” of the inner planets.