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Asteroid belt
ORBITS:
Sun
BELT REGION
A realm of small worlds between Mars and Jupiter.
Discover the broad population of asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, then explore its place on the map on the SPACE-di interactive map.
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Exploring Asteroid belt…
Asteroid belt is a belt region in the Solar System, our region of space within the universe. The Sun is the star at the centre of this system. Explore its story and place in our planetary neighbourhood, then find it on the interactive 3D space map.
Asteroid belt — An illustrative guide to the main asteroid belt, roughly 2.1–3.3 astronomical units from the Sun. Its dots are not individual catalogued asteroids. Objects include carbon-rich, silicate-rich and metal-rich bodies; each has its own orbit and composition. There is no single belt rotation speed.