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1815 Beethoven, provisional designation 1932 CE 1, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 kilometers (19 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 27 January 1932, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory.
Feb 28, 2019 · The Main Asteroid Belt is at the boundary of the inner and outer solar system. It marks a transition region from the rocky volatile-poor inner terrestrial planets to the outer gaseous and icy giant planets.
Inspection of the stacked CCD images obtained on October 11 and 12 showed that the main-belt comet presented a central bright condensation that was accompanied on its movement by three more fragments, A, B, C.
Jan 1, 2014 · Inward from the main asteroid belt are the asteroids that cross the orbits of the inner planets: the Amor, Apollo, and Aten asteroids. Amor asteroids are asteroids whose eccentric orbits dip in from the asteroid belt to cross the orbit of Mars, but without reaching the orbit of the Earth.
- Daniel T. Britt, S. J. Guy Consolmagno, Larry Lebofsky
- 2014
The asteroid belt is the smallest and innermost known circumstellar disc in the Solar System. Classes of small Solar System bodies in other regions are the near-Earth objects, the centaurs, the Kuiper belt objects, the scattered disc objects, the sednoids, and the Oort cloud objects.
This plot shows the location of the main belt with respect to the planets and the Sun as well as the orbital structure of asteroid inclinations and number…
The asteroid belt or main belt is a ring of small and large rocks and dust between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The biggest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres, a dwarf planet. The Kirkwood gaps separate the asteroid belt into several groups.
