SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

SPACE EXPLORATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Between which 2 planets do we find the asteroid belt?
A
Mercury and Jupiter
B
Earth and Mars
C
Mars and Jupiter
D
Jupiter and Saturn
Explanation: 

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.

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 between Mars and Jupiter that hosts most of the Solar System asteroids and marks the boundary between the inner rocky planets and the outer gas giants. It is also sometimes called the main asteroid belt to distinguish it from the Kuiper belt.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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