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What is the Asteroid Belt? Its Place in the Solar System and the Discovery Process

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. This area contains irregularly shaped celestial bodies of various sizes called “asteroids” or “minor planets”. Although these objects vary greatly in size, they are much smaller than the planets and the average distance between them …