Meaning of main asteroid belt | Babel Free

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Synonym of main belt.

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“If the asteroid first has an interaction with the terrestrial planets, it is possible that its orbit can be altered in a way to pull it out of the main asteroid belt and reside almost entirely within the inner solar system.”

“Most of the near-Earth objects originated in the Main Asteroid Belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, although some of them probably evolved into their current orbits from the reservoir of short-period comets extending beyond Jupiter […]”

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