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The Asteroid Belt: ... Are asteroids only found in the Asteroid Belt? ... 2. Where did the Asteroid Belt come from?
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www.kidsastronomy.com/academy/lesson210_assignment1_6.h...
www.kidsastronomy.com/academy/lesson210_assignment1_6.htm
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The Main Asteroid Belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. ... The Asteroid Belt is a region between the inner planets and outer planets where thousands of asteroids are found orbitting around the Sun.
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kids.nineplanets.org/asteroid.htm
kids.nineplanets.org/asteroid.htm
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Queen of the Asteroid Belt; With a diameter of 933 km (580 miles), Ceres is the undisputed ruler of the asteroid belt. The space rock accounts for a quarter of all the mass of all the thousands of known asteroids in or near the main asteroid belt. ... SSE Home > Kids > EXTREME Space...
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solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/extreme.cfm?Target=Asteroids
solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/extreme.cfm?Target=Asteroids
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Astronomers think that the asteroid belt is made up of material that was never able to form into a planet, or of the remains of a planet which broke apart a very long time ago. The asteroids in the asteroid belt come in a varity of sizes.
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coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/asteroi...
coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/asteroidbelt.shtml
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The dwarf planet called Ceres orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt. ... This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. Think about the asteroids as cars on the highway. Sometimes, the asteroid cars run into one another.
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starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_lev...
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/asteroids.html
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In the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, there are twenty-six asteroids larger than 124 miles in diameter, traveling along with hundreds of thousands of smaller asteroids. This page, created by amateur astronomer Bill Arnett, nicely catalogs what is known (and unknown) about these ... Surfing the Net with Kids:
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www.surfnetkids.com/asteroids.htm
www.surfnetkids.com/asteroids.htm
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The astroid belt is made up of a large number of astroids. In some ways asteroids are like planets. One way is that they orbit the sun. ... Another name for one is a '' minor planet '' because they orbit the sun. The astroid belt divides the inner and outter planets. It is between Mars and Jupiter. It is made up of a...
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www.jasper17.wayne.k12.il.us/Grade5/AstroidBelt.html
www.jasper17.wayne.k12.il.us/Grade5/AstroidBelt.html
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This region in our solar system, called the Asteroid Belt or Main Belt, probably contains millions of asteroids ranging widely in size from Ceres, which at 940 km in diameter is about one-quarter the diameter of our Moon, to bodies that are less than 1 km across.
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space.about.com/b/2004/07/13/the-asteroid-belt.htm
space.about.com/b/2004/07/13/the-asteroid-belt.htm
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Most asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a "Main Asteroid Belt" that is centered around 2.7 times the Earth-Sun distance (astronomical unit or AU) from Sol.
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www.solstation.com/stars/asteroid.htm
www.solstation.com/stars/asteroid.htm
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