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What is the average distance between asteroids in the asteroid belt?
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Unlike old Science Fiction movies which gives you the impression that asteroids are close together, the average distance between asteroids is approximately 1 million km. If you were to travel through the asteroid belt, the chance of encountering an asteroid is next to nothing.
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What are asteroids and where are they located?
Asteroids are bits of rock floating around in space.
Is the asteroid belt between earth and mars?
Mars' average distance from the sun is greater than Earth's average distance, and less than the average distance of most of the members of the asteroid belt. So, the answer is YES.
How do meteors get knocked out of the asteroid belt?
There are collisions between asteroids, which can knock asteroids and asteroid fragments into different orbits. Some asteroids may not have originated in the asteroid belt.
What two planets are asteroids between?
The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What two planets are most asteroids in between?
The asteroid belt is located between the planets of Mars and Jupiter.
How are space probes to the outer planets such as Jupiter protected from being obliterated by collisions with asteroids in the asteroid belt?
They are not protected from collisions. What helps is that the average distance between asteroids is immense, such that one asteroid is not likely visible to the naked eye to the next nearest asteroid. There is so much space between asteroids the ships generally pass through without any problem. Actually, the rings of Saturn are also so tenuous that the Cassini spacecraft has passed through them with no ill effect, and they are MUCH denser than the asteroid belt.
What are asteroids and where are they located?
Asteroids are bits of rock floating around in space.
Is the asteroid belt between earth and mars?
Mars' average distance from the sun is greater than Earth's average distance, and less than the average distance of most of the members of the asteroid belt. So, the answer is YES.
What belt of these is found between Mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids. There are many thousand in the Main Belt that occupies an empty orbit between Mars and Jupiter. The largest asteroid, Ceres, has been classified as a "dwarf planet" and contains about 1/3 of the total mass of asteroids in the Main Belt.
How do meteors get knocked out of the asteroid belt?
There are collisions between asteroids, which can knock asteroids and asteroid fragments into different orbits. Some asteroids may not have originated in the asteroid belt.
What is a group of objects that orbits between mars and Jupiter?
It's called the Asteroid belt. See the related link for more informtion.
My buddies and I form a belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Between Mars and Jupiter is an asteroid belt.
What two planets are asteroids between?
The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What two planets are most asteroids in between?
The asteroid belt is located between the planets of Mars and Jupiter.
Are most asteroids are distributed between Earth and Mars?
No. Most asteroids are in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Is Earth located inside the asteroid belt?
No most of the asteroids are in the asteroid belt which is between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the difference between an asteroid and a asteroid belt?
An asteroid is a single piece of rock, whereas an asteroid belt is an area that contains millions of individual asteroids.
