asteroid belt
(ring of orbiting planetoids/asteroids)
The Asteroid Belt is the region of the solar system between
Mars and Jupiter where many asteroids orbit,
which includes more than 90% of known minor planets.
The term is also used in a more general sense for
regions of the solar system with smaller populations
of similar bodies, so the "traditional" asteroid belt
may be called the main asteroid belt or main belt
and an asteroid within it a main belt asteroid (MBA).
Among the other asteroid populations (called asteroid families):
- Trojan asteroids (or just Trojans), orbiting in the Trojan Points, i.e., the Sun-Jupiter Lagrangian points, L4 and L5. Smaller populations are in the equivalent points for other planets, so they are sometimes distinguished as Jupiter Trojans versus, e.g., Neptune Trojans.
- near Earth asteroids (NEAs), i.e., rocky near-Earth objects (rocky NEOs, as opposed to NEOs that are comets).
(minor planets,solar system,asteroids)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(astronomy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object#Near-Earth_asteroids_(NEAs)
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/a/asteroid+belt
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Near+Earth+Asteroids
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/T/Trojan+Asteroids
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteroid_belt
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/afeatures.html
https://wisp.physics.wisc.edu/astro104/lecture19/lec19g.html
https://www.coe.edu/faculty-staff/james-wetzel/astronomy/asteroids
Referenced by pages:
2010 TK7
asteroid
Ceres
circumstellar disk
debris disk
grand tack hypothesis
halo orbit
Kuiper Belt (K Belt)
Lagrangian point
late heavy bombardment (LHB)
Lucy
Nice model
Palomar-Leiden Survey (PLS)
planetoid
Psyche
solar system object (SSO)
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