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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 .
Main-belt asteroids. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Main Belt asteroids. 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt. If possible, asteroids should always be placed into one of the numerous sub-categories, in line with the category information given in the minor-planet catalog.