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2 days ago · The Role of the Asteroid Belt in Science Fiction. The Asteroid Belt has captured the imagination of many science fiction writers and filmmakers. Here are some ways it has been depicted in popular culture. In the "Star Wars" series, the Millennium Falcon navigates through an asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back."
5 days ago · Image: NASA. NASA has turned on the electric Hall thrusters of Psyche, a spacecraft that’s now gently motoring toward a metal-rich asteroid embedded in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. The ...
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3 days ago · The asteroid 16 Psyche is of interest to scientists because it is a large, 173-mile-wide (280-kilometer-wide) fragment of an ancient planet's metallic core that was left over from our solar system ...
1 day ago · 2 Pallas is a large asteroid located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 28, 1802 and is one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, with a diameter of approximately 544 kilometers. It has a highly irregular shape, with a large impact crater on one side ...
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3 days ago · Asteroid 15 Eunomia is one of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid belt, with a diameter of about 270 kilometers. It was discovered on July 29, 1851, by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. The asteroid was named after Eunomia, the Greek goddess of law and order.
3 days ago · 7 Iris is a large main-belt asteroid located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It orbits the Sun once every 3.68 Earth years. It was discovered on August 13, 1847 by John Russell Hind and is named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow. Iris has a diameter of approximately 200 kilometers and is irregularly shaped, with a rotation period ...
1 day ago · Using the Solar System for comparison, the orbit of Mars is about 1.5 AU, Ceres in the asteroid belt 2.7 AU, Jupiter 5.5 AU —so, assuming Betelgeuse occupying the place of the Sun, its photosphere might extend beyond the Jovian orbit, not quite reaching Saturn at 9.5 AU.
