SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

SURVEY OF THE PLANETS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Asteroids are located only in the Kuiper belt.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Explanation: most of the asteroids are between orbits of Mars and Jupiter called asteroid belt and many of them are beyond Neptune called kuiper belt and some of them are scattered ..

Detailed explanation-2: -The vast majority of asteroids that have been catalogued are located in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; however, not all asteroids are located in the asteroid belt.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger-20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive.

Detailed explanation-4: -The asteroid belt is roughly located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, with the inner edge about 2 AU from the Sun. In comparison, the Kuiper belt is located about 15 times further from the Sun, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Detailed explanation-5: -This distant region is probably populated with hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km (62 miles) across and an estimated trillion or more comets. Dwarf planet Pluto may be the best known of the larger objects in the Kuiper Belt.

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