Rocky minor planets that orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, including its largest members such as Vesta, Pallas, Juno and Hygiea. A body belongs here when its cited article places it in the asteroid belt. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Wikipedia: 4 Vesta
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Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi).
Wikipedia: 3 Juno
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Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt.
Wikipedia: 10 Hygiea
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10 Hygiea is a large asteroid in the outer region of the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
243 Ida (Wikipedia)
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243 Ida is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt.
Wikipedia: 951 Gaspra
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951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.
253 Mathilde (Wikipedia)
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253 Mathilde is an asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 50 kilometers in diameter, that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory on 12 November 1885.
Wikipedia: 2 Pallas
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constituting an estimated 7% of the total mass of the asteroid belt
Wikipedia: 16 Psyche
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contains about one percent of the cumulative mass of the whole asteroid belt
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