UNIVERSE
SOLAR STRUCTURE
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Question
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Where is the asteroid belt?
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Between Earth and Mars
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Between Mars and Jupiter
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Between Mercury and Venus
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Between Saturn and Uranus
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Explanation:
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: -There may be millions of these icy objects, collectively referred to as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in this distant region of our solar system.
Detailed explanation-3: -No. The asteroid Belt is on average about 2.6 AU from the Sun. Earth is 1 AU from Sun, 1.6 AU from the asteroid belt.
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