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The mass of 4 Vesta (blue) compared to other large asteroids: 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, 10 Hygiea, 704 Interamnia, 15 Eunomia and the remainder of the Main Belt. The unit of mass is × 10 18 kg. Other objects in the Solar system with well-defined masses within a factor of 2 of Vesta's mass are Varda , Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà , and Salacia (245, 136, and ...
- 19.34 km/s
- Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
- 29 March 1807
Location of the main belt 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 density of objects (yellow represents the highest number density, blue the lowest). Figure from DeMeo and Carry (2014).
- Asteroids by The Millions
- Distances in The Asteroid Belt
- Asteroids in and Out of The Main Belt
While the graphic may make it seem like the asteroid belt is teeming with debris, if you lumped all the material together it would only create a body smaller than Earth’s moon. The asteroid belt contains objects that vary wildly in size. It has 1 to 2 million asteroids more than half a mile (about a km) across. Plus, the asteroid belt contains unto...
Outer space is vast. And thus, despite there being many millions (possibly billions) of objects in the asteroid belt, the average distance between them is 600,000 miles (about 1 million km). This means that spacecraft can fly through the asteroid belt without colliding with any asteroids. (Although, obviously, a chance collision is never completely...
We often call the asteroid belt the main belt to distinguish it from other, smaller groups of asteroids in the solar system such as the Lagrangians and Centaursin the outer solar system. What scientists once thought was a homogeneous belt they now know to be slightly more complicated. There are different and distinct zones within the main-belt aste...
Category. : Main-belt asteroids. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Main Belt asteroids. 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. Used sources: Small Body Data Ferret (Nesvorný) and AstDys (Milani and Knežević).
The principal component of the Solar System is the Sun, a low-mass star [g] that contains 99.86% of the system's known mass and dominates it gravitationally. [26] The Sun's four largest orbiting bodies, the giant planets, account for 99% of the remaining mass, with Jupiter and Saturn together comprising more than 90%.
- 4.568 billion years
- Proxima Centauri system (4.2441 ly)
Summary. From the viewpoint of planet formation in the Solar System, Main Belt asteroids are the remnants of the so-called planetesimal population, the building bricks of planets that formed ubiquitously all over the Solar Nebula. Over the last years evidence has grown that planetesimals formed big from the gravitational collapse of a local ...
The Jupiter trojans are divided into two groups: The Greek camp in front of and the Trojan camp trailing behind Jupiter in their orbit. The Jupiter trojans, commonly called trojan asteroids or simply trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter 's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each trojan librates around ...
