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- The asteroid belt is considered mostly empty because ...
- Within the asteroid belt, objects of around 10 km radius will collide with each other once every ...
- Of the 12 spacecrafts that have now crossed the asteroid belt, how many have had an accidental collision with an asteroid?
- Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt. In what year did it enter the asteroid belt?
- The asteroid belt is also populated with particles of only a few hundred micrometers in size, and this ‘dust’ is slowly ...
- The asteroids in the asteroid belt can be classified into ‘families’ which share resembling characteristics, and hint towards a common origin (from a large body which has since broken up). These characteristics are spectral features, semi-major axis, orbital inclination and ...
- 75% of the visible asteroids in the belt are located in the outer regions and are ...
- V-type asteroids are remarkably rare in the asteroid belt. What are they mostly composed of?
- It is thought that the asteroid belt was the result of the accretion of particles during the formation of the solar system. The clumps of particles formed planetesimals (which can come together to make large objects, such as planets). However the planetesimals in the asteroid belt never grew bigger because of the disturbance created by ...
- Orbital resonances (gravitational influences) with Jupiter have created gaps in the asteroid belt. These gaps are called ...
- The Kirkwood gaps have divided the main asteroid belt into ...
- Most known asteroids have an apparent magnitude of ...
- What is the orbital eccentricity of most of the asteroids in the asteroid belt?
- How much of the mass of the belt is located in its four largest bodies (Ceres, Vesta, 2 Pallas, and 10 Hygiea)?
- William Hershel was the first to suggest the name ‘asteroids’ for the small objects observed orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids, in Greek Asteroides, means ...