The Asteroid Belt is a torus-shaped region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, roughly 2.2 to 3.2 AU from the Sun, holding an estimated 700,000 to 1.7 million rocky asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter.
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The Asteroid Belt is a torus-shaped region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, roughly 2.2 to 3.2 AU from the Sun, holding an estimated 700,000 to 1.7 million rocky asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter.
Asteroid belt (Wikipedia)
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It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
In Group: Solar System Belts, Clouds and Small Trans-Neptunian Bodies, Lead: kind of object
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System
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