Classes of small Solar System bodies in other regions are the near-Earth objects, the centaurs, the Kuiper belt objects, the scattered disc objects, the sednoids, and the Oort cloud objects. About 60% …

Dec 15, 2025 · The asteroid belt sits more than two and a half times farther from the sun than Earth and contains millions of objects ranging from pebble-sized fragments to bodies hundreds of miles wide.

Sep 10, 2024 · The asteroid belt is a vast, doughnut-shaped region of the solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This region contains millions of rocky objects, known as asteroids, that …

May 14, 2025 · C-class (carbonaceous) objects dominate the outer belt and are loaded with carbon and water. Illustration showing a bird's-eye view of our asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars (red) and …

By 1807, further investigation revealed three new objects in the region: Pallas, Juno and Vesta. In 1845, though, astronomers detected a fifth object (Astraea) and, shortly thereafter, new objects were found …

Oct 8, 2019 · There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt, but almost half of the entire mass is made up of just four objects. These objects are the dwarf planet Ceres, and three …

Feb 7, 2023 · Meet the asteroid belt, a place in our solar system where small bodies – mostly rocky and some metallic – orbit the sun. Sometimes scientists call these little worlds minor planets.

Jun 2, 2024 · Half of the entire mass of the Asteroid Belt is composed of the 4 major objects in this belt—Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea. Among that, almost 1/3 of the entire mass of the Asteroid …

Sep 6, 2025 · In the asteroid belt, the four largest bodies are Ceres (a dwarf planet named after the Roman goddess of agriculture), Vesta (the Roman goddess of the home), Pallas (the granddaughter …

A vast region between Mars and Jupiter containing millions of asteroids, ranging from dust-sized particles to dwarf planets, forming a remnant disk of material that never coalesced into a planet …