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vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroideng%C3%BCrtel" title="Asteroidengürtel – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Asteroidengürtel" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%ABmst%C4%81ngyrdel" title="Rūmstāngyrdel – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Rūmstāngyrdel" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="حزام الكويكبات – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="حزام الكويكبات" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinto_d%27asteroides" title="Cinto d'asteroides – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Cinto d'asteroides" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintur%C3%B3n_d%27asteroides" title="Cinturón d'asteroides – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Cinturón d'asteroides" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbyjaveve_Ku%27as%C3%A3" title="Mbyjaveve Ku'asã – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Mbyjaveve Ku'asã" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_qur%C5%9Fa%C4%9F%C4%B1" title="Asteroid qurşağı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Asteroid qurşağı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%81_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80" title="গ্রহাণু বেষ্টনী – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="গ্রহাণু বেষ্টনী" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%B3-he%CC%8Dk-chhe%E2%81%BF-t%C3%B2a" title="Sió-he̍k-chheⁿ-tòa – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sió-he̍k-chheⁿ-tòa" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B" title="Астероидтар билбауы – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Астероидтар билбауы" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%9E" title="Пояс астэроідаў – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Пояс астэроідаў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%9E" title="Пояс астэроідаў – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Пояс астэроідаў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F" title="एस्टेरॉइड बेल्ट – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="एस्टेरॉइड बेल्ट" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81" title="Астероиден пояс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Астероиден пояс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidngiatl" title="Asteroidngiatl – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Asteroidngiatl" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidni_pojas" title="Asteroidni pojas – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Asteroidni pojas" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourizad_asteroidenno%C3%B9" title="Gourizad asteroidennoù – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Gourizad asteroidennoù" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintur%C3%B3_d%27asteroides" title="Cinturó d'asteroides – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Cinturó d'asteroides" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlavn%C3%AD_p%C3%A1s" title="Hlavní pás – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hlavní pás" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroideb%C3%A6lte" title="Asteroidebælte – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Asteroidebælte" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroideng%C3%BCrtel" title="Asteroidengürtel – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Asteroidengürtel" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidide_v%C3%B6%C3%B6" title="Asteroidide vöö – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Asteroidide vöö" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%B6%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%B7_%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B4%CF%8E%CE%BD" title="Κύρια ζώνη αστεροειδών – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κύρια ζώνη αστεροειδών" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasa_prinsip%C3%A0la" title="Fasa prinsipàla – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Fasa prinsipàla" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintur%C3%B3n_de_asteroides" title="Cinturón de asteroides – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cinturón de asteroides" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroida_zono" title="Asteroida zono – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Asteroida zono" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroide_gerrikoa" title="Asteroide gerrikoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Asteroide gerrikoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7" title="کمربند سیارک‌ها – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کمربند سیارک‌ها" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceinture_d%27ast%C3%A9ro%C3%AFdes" title="Ceinture d'astéroïdes – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ceinture d'astéroïdes" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crios_astar%C3%B3ideach" title="Crios astaróideach – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Crios astaróideach" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_chryss_roltageagh" title="Yn chryss roltageagh – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Yn chryss roltageagh" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinto_de_asteroides" title="Cinto de asteroides – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Cinto de asteroides" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%8C%ED%96%89%EC%84%B1%EB%8C%80" title="소행성대 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="소행성대" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%AB%D5%A4%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%A3%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%AB" title="Աստերոիդների գոտի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Աստերոիդների գոտի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%98%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="क्षुद्रग्रह घेरा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="क्षुद्रग्रह घेरा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidni_pojas" title="Asteroidni pojas – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Asteroidni pojas" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabuk_asteroid" title="Sabuk asteroid – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sabuk asteroid" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_principale" title="Fascia principale – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Fascia principale" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D" title="חגורת האסטרואידים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="חגורת האסטרואידים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabuk_ast%C3%A9roid" title="Sabuk astéroid – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Sabuk astéroid" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B7%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%B9_%E0%B2%B9%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%81" title="ಕ್ಷುದ್ರಗ್ರಹ ಹೊನಲು – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಕ್ಷುದ್ರಗ್ರಹ ಹೊನಲು" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A7%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ასტეროიდთა სარტყელი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ასტეროიდთა სარტყელი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B3%D1%96_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%83" title="Негізгі белдеу – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Негізгі белдеу" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagas_asteroydys" title="Bagas asteroydys – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Bagas asteroydys" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukanda_wa_visayari" title="Ukanda wa visayari – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Ukanda wa visayari" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentir_di_ast%C3%A9ro%C3%AFd" title="Sentir di astéroïd – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Sentir di astéroïd" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingulus_asteroidum" title="Cingulus asteroidum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Cingulus asteroidum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astero%C4%ABdu_josla" title="Asteroīdu josla – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Asteroīdu josla" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaptasteroidenceinture" title="Haaptasteroidenceinture – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Haaptasteroidenceinture" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%C5%B3_%C5%BEiedas" title="Asteroidų žiedas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Asteroidų žiedas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintur_de_asteroides" title="Sintur de asteroides – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Sintur de asteroides" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasa_Principala" title="Fasa Principala – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Fasa Principala" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisbolyg%C3%B3%C3%B6v" title="Kisbolygóöv – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kisbolygóöv" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Астероиден појас – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Астероиден појас" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9B%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%82" title="ഛിന്നഗ്രഹവലയം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഛിന്നഗ്രഹവലയം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%98%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE" title="लघुग्रह पट्टा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="लघुग्रह पट्टा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A7%E1%83%90%E1%83%A4%E1%83%A3" title="ასტეროიდეფიშ ორტყაფუ – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ასტეროიდეფიშ ორტყაფუ" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="حزام الكويكبات – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="حزام الكويكبات" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingkaran_asteroid" title="Lingkaran asteroid – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Lingkaran asteroid" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%95%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99_%E1%80%A5%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC_%E1%80%81%E1%80%AB%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA" title="ပင်မ ဥက္ကာ ခါးပတ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ပင်မ ဥက္ကာ ခါးပတ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planeto%C3%AFdengordel" title="Planetoïdengordel – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Planetoïdengordel" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%83%91%E6%98%9F%E5%B8%AF" title="小惑星帯 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="小惑星帯" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidebeltet" title="Asteroidebeltet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Asteroidebeltet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroidebeltet" title="Asteroidebeltet – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Asteroidebeltet" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cencha_d%27astero%C3%AFdes" title="Cencha d'asteroïdes – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Cencha d'asteroïdes" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_kamari" title="Asteroid kamari – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Asteroid kamari" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%92_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9%DB%8C" title="نکے پاندھی پیٹی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="نکے پاندھی پیٹی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%86%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF" title="د کوچنیو سیارو کمربند – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="د کوچنیو سیارو کمربند" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaraid_belt" title="Astaraid belt – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Astaraid belt" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroideng%C3%B6rdel" title="Asteroidengördel – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Asteroidengördel" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pas_planetoid" title="Pas planetoid – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Pas planetoid" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintura_de_asteroides" title="Cintura de asteroides – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cintura de asteroides" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ksh mw-list-item"><a href="https://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteoridej%C3%BCddel" title="Asteoridejüddel – Colognian" lang="ksh" hreflang="ksh" data-title="Asteoridejüddel" data-language-autonym="Ripoarisch" data-language-local-name="Colognian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ripoarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centura_de_asteroizi" title="Centura de asteroizi – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Centura de asteroizi" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%85" title="Главный пас астероидох – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Главный пас астероидох" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Пояс астероидов – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Пояс астероидов" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a 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color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #2B9929;background-color:#6ad768; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_trojan" title="Jupiter trojan">Jupiter trojans</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #00508A;background-color:#007DD6; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Orbit" title="Orbit">Orbits</a> of <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planets</a></span> </td> <td valign="top"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #999999;background-color:#e9e9e9; color:black;"> </span> <i><b>Asteroid belt</b></i></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #855D00;background-color:#d39300; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Hilda_family" title="Hilda family">Hilda asteroids</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Hildas)</span></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #940000;background-color:#c90000; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth objects</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(selection)</span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg/300px-Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg/450px-Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg/600px-Ceres-Vesta-Eros_compared_to_Pluto-Charon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5888" data-file-height="4611" /></a><figcaption>By far the largest object within the belt is the dwarf planet <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>. The total mass of the asteroid belt is significantly less than <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>'s, and roughly twice that of Pluto's moon <a href="/wiki/Charon_(moon)" title="Charon (moon)">Charon</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>asteroid belt</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Torus" title="Torus">torus</a>-shaped region in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>, centered on the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a> or <a href="/wiki/Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">minor planets</a>. The identified objects are of many sizes, but much smaller than <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planets</a>, and, on average, are about one million kilometers (or six hundred thousand miles) apart. This asteroid belt is also called the <b>main asteroid belt</b> or <b>main belt</b> to distinguish it from other asteroid populations in the Solar System.<sup id="cite_ref-Williams_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The asteroid belt is the smallest and innermost known <a href="/wiki/Circumstellar_disc" title="Circumstellar disc">circumstellar disc</a> in the Solar System. Classes of <a href="/wiki/Small_Solar_System_body" title="Small Solar System body">small Solar System bodies</a> in other regions are the <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_objects" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-Earth objects">near-Earth objects</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Centaur_(minor_planet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Centaur (minor planet)">centaurs</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Kuiper_belt" title="Kuiper belt">Kuiper belt</a> objects, the <a href="/wiki/Scattered_disc" title="Scattered disc">scattered disc</a> objects, the <a href="/wiki/Sednoid" title="Sednoid">sednoids</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Oort_cloud" title="Oort cloud">Oort cloud</a> objects. About 60% of the main belt mass is contained in the four largest asteroids: <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>, <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">Vesta</a>, <a href="/wiki/2_Pallas" title="2 Pallas">Pallas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/10_Hygiea" title="10 Hygiea">Hygiea</a>. The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 3% that of the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pitjeva2018_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pitjeva2018-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ceres, the only object in the asteroid belt large enough to be a <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a>, is about 950 km in diameter, whereas Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea have mean diameters less than 600 km.<sup id="cite_ref-Krasinskyetal2002_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krasinskyetal2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pitjeva2005_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pitjeva2005-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-halfmass_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-halfmass-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jplsbdb_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jplsbdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remaining mineralogically classified bodies range in size down to a few metres.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that numerous uncrewed spacecraft have traversed it without incident.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, collisions between large asteroids occur and can produce an <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">asteroid family</a>, whose members have similar orbital characteristics and compositions. Individual asteroids within the belt are categorized by their <a href="/wiki/Spectrum" title="Spectrum">spectra</a>, with most falling into three basic groups: <a href="/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon">carbonaceous</a> (<a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">C-type</a>), <a href="/wiki/Silicate" title="Silicate">silicate</a> (<a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a>), and metal-rich (<a href="/wiki/M-type_asteroid" title="M-type asteroid">M-type</a>). </p><p>The asteroid belt formed from the primordial <a href="/wiki/Solar_nebula" class="mw-redirect" title="Solar nebula">solar nebula</a> as a group of <a href="/wiki/Planetesimal" title="Planetesimal">planetesimals</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CosmosUp_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CosmosUp-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the smaller precursors of the <a href="/wiki/Protoplanet" title="Protoplanet">protoplanets</a>. However, between Mars and Jupiter <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravitational</a> perturbations from Jupiter disrupted their <a href="/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)" title="Accretion (astrophysics)">accretion</a> into a planet,<sup id="cite_ref-CosmosUp_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CosmosUp-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> imparting excess kinetic energy which shattered colliding planetesimals and most of the incipient protoplanets. As a result, 99.9% of the asteroid belt's original mass was lost in the first 100 million years of the Solar System's history.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some fragments eventually found their way into the inner Solar System, leading to meteorite impacts with the inner planets. Asteroid orbits continue to be appreciably <a href="/wiki/Perturbation_(astronomy)" title="Perturbation (astronomy)">perturbed</a> whenever their period of revolution about the Sun forms an <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonance</a> with Jupiter. At these orbital distances, a <a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_gap" title="Kirkwood gap">Kirkwood gap</a> occurs as they are swept into other orbits.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_observation">History of observation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of observation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JKepler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JKepler.jpg/170px-JKepler.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JKepler.jpg/255px-JKepler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JKepler.jpg/340px-JKepler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="836" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>In 1596, <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a>'s sense of proportion for the planetary orbits led him to believe that an invisible planet lay between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Definition_of_planet" title="Definition of planet">Definition of planet</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets" title="List of minor planets">List of minor planets</a></div> <p>In 1596, <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> wrote, "Between Mars and Jupiter, I place a planet," in his <i><a href="/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum" title="Mysterium Cosmographicum">Mysterium Cosmographicum</a></i>, stating his prediction that a planet would be found there.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While analyzing <a href="/wiki/Tycho_Brahe" title="Tycho Brahe">Tycho Brahe</a>'s data, Kepler thought that too large a gap existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter to fit his own model of where planetary orbits should be found.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an anonymous footnote to his 1766 translation of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bonnet" title="Charles Bonnet">Charles Bonnet</a>'s <i>Contemplation de la Nature</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-asteroids_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asteroids-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the astronomer <a href="/wiki/Johann_Daniel_Titius" title="Johann Daniel Titius">Johann Daniel Titius</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wittenberg" title="Wittenberg">Wittenberg</a><sup id="cite_ref-Dawn_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawn-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hoskin_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoskin-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> noted an apparent pattern in the layout of the planets, now known as the <a href="/wiki/Titius-Bode_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Titius-Bode Law">Titius-Bode Law</a>. If one began a numerical sequence at 0, then included 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, etc., doubling each time, and added four to each number and divided by 10, this produced a remarkably close approximation to the radii of the orbits of the known planets as measured in <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_units" class="mw-redirect" title="Astronomical units">astronomical units</a>, <i>provided</i> one allowed for a "missing planet" (equivalent to 24 in the sequence) between the orbits of Mars (12) and Jupiter (48). In his footnote, Titius declared, "But should the Lord Architect have left that space empty? Not at all."<sup id="cite_ref-Dawn_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawn-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> discovered <a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a> in 1781, the planet's orbit closely matched the law, leading some astronomers to conclude that a planet had to be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<sup id="cite_ref-Nieto_2014_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nieto_2014-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costanzo_Angelini,_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg/170px-Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg/255px-Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg/340px-Costanzo_Angelini%2C_L%27astronomo_Piazzi_1825_ca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="757" data-file-height="951" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi" title="Giuseppe Piazzi">Giuseppe Piazzi</a>, discoverer of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt: Ceres was known as a planet, but later reclassified as an asteroid and from 2006 as a dwarf planet.</figcaption></figure> <p>On January 1, 1801, <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi" title="Giuseppe Piazzi">Giuseppe Piazzi</a>, chairman of astronomy at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Palermo" title="University of Palermo">University of Palermo</a>, Sicily, found a tiny moving object in an orbit with exactly the radius predicted by this pattern. He dubbed it "Ceres", after the <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(Roman_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceres (Roman mythology)">Roman goddess</a> of the harvest and patron of Sicily. Piazzi initially believed it to be a comet, but its lack of a <a href="/wiki/Coma_(cometary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coma (cometary)">coma</a> suggested it was a planet.<sup id="cite_ref-police_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-police-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, the aforementioned pattern predicted the <a href="/wiki/Semi-major_axis" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-major axis">semimajor axes</a> of all eight planets of the time (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus). Concurrent with the discovery of Ceres, an informal group of 24 astronomers dubbed the "<a href="/wiki/Celestial_police" title="Celestial police">celestial police</a>" was formed under the invitation of <a href="/wiki/Franz_Xaver_von_Zach" title="Franz Xaver von Zach">Franz Xaver von Zach</a> with the express purpose of finding additional planets; they focused their search for them in the region between Mars and Jupiter where the <a href="/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law" title="Titius–Bode law">Titius–Bode law</a> predicted there should be a planet.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>About 15 months later, <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Matthias_Olbers" title="Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers">Heinrich Olbers</a>, a member of the celestial police, discovered a second object in the same region, Pallas. Unlike the other known planets, Ceres and Pallas remained points of light even under the highest telescope magnifications instead of resolving into discs. Apart from their rapid movement, they appeared indistinguishable from <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-serendipity_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-serendipity-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accordingly, in 1802, <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> suggested they be placed into a separate category, named "asteroids", after the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Greek</a> <i>asteroeides</i>, meaning "star-like".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-aster-root_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aster-root-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon completing a series of observations of Ceres and Pallas, he concluded,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote> <p>Neither the appellation of planets nor that of comets can with any propriety of language be given to these two stars ... They resemble small stars so much as hardly to be distinguished from them. From this, their asteroidal appearance, if I take my name, and call them Asteroids; reserving for myself, however, the liberty of changing that name, if another, more expressive of their nature, should occur. </p> </blockquote> <p>By 1807, further investigation revealed two new objects in the region: <a href="/wiki/3_Juno" title="3 Juno">Juno</a> and <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">Vesta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-serendipity_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-serendipity-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The burning of <a href="/wiki/Lilienthal,_Lower_Saxony" title="Lilienthal, Lower Saxony">Lilienthal</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleonic wars">Napoleonic wars</a>, where the main body of work had been done,<sup id="cite_ref-Elkins_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elkins-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> brought this first period of discovery to a close.<sup id="cite_ref-serendipity_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-serendipity-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite Herschel's coinage, for several decades it remained common practice to refer to these objects as planets<sup id="cite_ref-asteroids_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asteroids-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and to prefix their names with numbers representing their sequence of discovery: 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, 3 Juno, 4 Vesta. In 1845, though, the astronomer <a href="/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Hencke" title="Karl Ludwig Hencke">Karl Ludwig Hencke</a> detected a fifth object (<a href="/wiki/5_Astraea" title="5 Astraea">5 Astraea</a>) and, shortly thereafter, new objects were found at an accelerating rate. Counting them among the planets became increasingly cumbersome. Eventually, they were dropped from the planet list (as first suggested by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt" title="Alexander von Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a> in the early 1850s) and Herschel's coinage, "asteroids", gradually came into common use.<sup id="cite_ref-asteroids_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asteroids-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The discovery of <a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a> in 1846 led to the discrediting of the Titius–Bode law in the eyes of scientists because its orbit was nowhere near the predicted position. To date, no scientific explanation for the law has been given, and astronomers' consensus regards it as a coincidence.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:951_Gaspra.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/951_Gaspra.jpg/220px-951_Gaspra.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/951_Gaspra.jpg/330px-951_Gaspra.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/951_Gaspra.jpg/440px-951_Gaspra.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="880" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/951_Gaspra" title="951 Gaspra">951 Gaspra</a>, the first asteroid imaged by a spacecraft, as viewed during <i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">Galileo</a>'</i>s 1991 flyby; colors are exaggerated</figcaption></figure> <p>The expression "asteroid belt" came into use in the early 1850s, although pinpointing who coined the term is difficult. The first English use seems to be in the 1850 translation (by <a href="/wiki/Elise_Ott%C3%A9" title="Elise Otté">Elise Otté</a>) of Alexander von Humboldt's <i><a href="/wiki/Cosmos_(Humboldt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmos (Humboldt)">Cosmos</a></i>:<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "[...] and the regular appearance, about the 13th of November and the 11th of August, of shooting stars, which probably form part of a belt of asteroids intersecting the Earth's orbit and moving with planetary velocity". Another early appearance occurred in <a href="/wiki/Robert_James_Mann" title="Robert James Mann">Robert James Mann</a>'s <i>A Guide to the Knowledge of the Heavens</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The orbits of the asteroids are placed in a wide belt of space, extending between the extremes of [...]". The American astronomer <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Peirce" title="Benjamin Peirce">Benjamin Peirce</a> seems to have adopted that terminology and to have been one of its promoters.<sup id="cite_ref-ENPJ1857_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ENPJ1857-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over 100 asteroids had been located by mid-1868, and in 1891, the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Astrophotography" title="Astrophotography">astrophotography</a> by <a href="/wiki/Max_Wolf" title="Max Wolf">Max Wolf</a> accelerated the rate of discovery.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A total of 1,000 asteroids had been found by 1921,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 10,000 by 1981,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 100,000 by 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern asteroid survey systems now use automated means to locate new minor planets in ever-increasing numbers. </p><p>On 22 January 2014, <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a> (ESA) scientists reported the detection, for the first definitive time, of <a href="/wiki/Water_vapor" title="Water vapor">water vapor</a> on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-KüppersO'Rourke2014_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KüppersO'Rourke2014-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The detection was made by using the <a href="/wiki/Far-infrared_astronomy" title="Far-infrared astronomy">far-infrared abilities</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Herschel_Space_Observatory" title="Herschel Space Observatory">Herschel Space Observatory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20140122_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20140122-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The finding was unexpected because <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comets</a>, not asteroids, are typically considered to "sprout jets and plumes". According to one of the scientists, "The lines are becoming more and more blurred between comets and asteroids".<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20140122_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20140122-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin"><span class="anchor" id="Origin"></span>Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_belt_i_vs_a.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Main_belt_i_vs_a.png/300px-Main_belt_i_vs_a.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Main_belt_i_vs_a.png/450px-Main_belt_i_vs_a.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Main_belt_i_vs_a.png/600px-Main_belt_i_vs_a.png 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="834" /></a><figcaption>The asteroid belt showing the orbital inclinations versus distances from the Sun, with asteroids in the core region of the asteroid belt in red and other asteroids in blue</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation">Formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1802, shortly after discovering Pallas, Olbers suggested to Herschel and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Gauss" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Gauss">Carl Gauss</a> that Ceres and Pallas were <a href="/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)" title="Phaeton (hypothetical planet)">fragments of a much larger planet</a> that once occupied the Mars–Jupiter region, with this planet having suffered an internal explosion or a cometary impact many million years before,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesan</a> astronomer K. N. Savchenko suggested that Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta were escaped moons rather than fragments of the exploded planet.<sup id="cite_ref-originoftheasteroids_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-originoftheasteroids-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large amount of energy required to destroy a planet, combined with the belt's low combined mass, which is only about 4% of the mass of Earth's Moon,<sup id="cite_ref-Krasinskyetal2002_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krasinskyetal2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> does not support these hypotheses. Further, the significant chemical differences between the asteroids become difficult to explain if they come from the same planet.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A modern hypothesis for the asteroid belt's creation relates to how, in general for the Solar System, <a href="/wiki/Planetary_formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Planetary formation">planetary formation</a> is thought to have occurred via a process comparable to the long-standing <a href="/wiki/Nebular_hypothesis" title="Nebular hypothesis">nebular hypothesis</a>; a cloud of <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_dust" title="Cosmic dust">interstellar dust</a> and gas collapsed under the influence of gravity to form a rotating disc of material that then conglomerated to form the Sun and planets.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the first few million years of the Solar System's history, an accretion process of sticky collisions caused the clumping of small particles, which gradually increased in size. Once the clumps reached sufficient mass, they could draw in other bodies through gravitational attraction and become planetesimals. This gravitational <a href="/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)" title="Accretion (astrophysics)">accretion</a> led to the formation of the planets.<sup id="cite_ref-Chambers_2004_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chambers_2004-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Planetesimals within the region that would become the asteroid belt were strongly <a href="/wiki/Perturbation_(astronomy)" title="Perturbation (astronomy)">perturbed</a> by Jupiter's gravity.<sup id="cite_ref-icarus153_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icarus153-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">Orbital resonances</a> occurred where the <a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">orbital period</a> of an object in the belt formed an integer fraction of the orbital period of Jupiter, perturbing the object into a different orbit; the region lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter contains many such orbital resonances. As <a href="/wiki/Nice_model" title="Nice model">Jupiter migrated inward</a> following its formation, these resonances would have swept across the asteroid belt, dynamically exciting the region's population and increasing their velocities relative to each other.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In regions where the average velocity of the collisions was too high, the shattering of planetesimals tended to dominate over accretion,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> preventing the formation of a planet. Instead, they continued to orbit the Sun as before, occasionally colliding.<sup id="cite_ref-icarus153_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icarus153-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the early history of the Solar System, the asteroids melted to some degree, allowing elements within them to be <a href="/wiki/Planetary_differentiation" title="Planetary differentiation">differentiated</a> by mass. Some of the progenitor bodies may even have undergone periods of explosive <a href="/wiki/Volcanism" title="Volcanism">volcanism</a> and formed <a href="/wiki/Magma" title="Magma">magma</a> oceans. Because of the relatively small size of the bodies, though, the period of melting was necessarily brief compared to the much larger planets, and had generally ended about 4.5 billion years ago, in the first tens of millions of years of formation.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2007, a study of <a href="/wiki/Zircon" title="Zircon">zircon</a> crystals in an Antarctic meteorite believed to have originated from Vesta suggested that it, and by extension the rest of the asteroid belt, had formed rather quickly, within 10 million years of the Solar System's origin.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evolution">Evolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vesta_from_Dawn,_July_18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg/220px-Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg/330px-Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg/440px-Vesta_from_Dawn%2C_July_18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption>Large main belt asteroid <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">4 Vesta</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The asteroids are not pristine samples of the primordial Solar System. They have undergone considerable evolution since their formation, including internal heating (in the first few tens of millions of years), surface melting from impacts, <a href="/wiki/Space_weathering" title="Space weathering">space weathering</a> from radiation, and bombardment by <a href="/wiki/Micrometeorites" class="mw-redirect" title="Micrometeorites">micrometeorites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although some scientists refer to the asteroids as residual planetesimals,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> other scientists consider them distinct.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The current asteroid belt is believed to contain only a small fraction of the mass of the primordial belt. Computer simulations suggest that the original asteroid belt may have contained mass equivalent to the Earth's.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Primarily because of gravitational perturbations, most of the material was ejected from the belt within about 1 million years of formation, leaving behind less than 0.1% of the original mass.<sup id="cite_ref-icarus153_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icarus153-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since its formation, the size distribution of the asteroid belt has remained relatively stable; no significant increase or decrease in the typical dimensions of the main-belt asteroids has occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 4:1 <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonance</a> with Jupiter, at a radius 2.06 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">astronomical units</a> (AUs), can be considered the inner boundary of the asteroid belt. Perturbations by Jupiter send bodies straying there into unstable orbits. Most bodies formed within the radius of this gap were swept up by Mars (which has an <a href="/wiki/Aphelion" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphelion">aphelion</a> at 1.67 AU) or ejected by its gravitational perturbations in the early history of the Solar System.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hungaria_asteroids" title="Hungaria asteroids">Hungaria asteroids</a> lie closer to the Sun than the 4:1 resonance, but are protected from disruption by their high inclination.<sup id="cite_ref-hungaria_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hungaria-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the asteroid belt was first formed, the temperatures at a distance of 2.7 AU from the Sun formed a "<a href="/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics)" title="Frost line (astrophysics)">snow line</a>" below the freezing point of water. Planetesimals formed beyond this radius were able to accumulate ice.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, a population of <a href="/wiki/Main-belt_comet" class="mw-redirect" title="Main-belt comet">comets</a> had been discovered within the asteroid belt beyond the snow line, which may have provided a source of water for Earth's oceans. According to some models, <a href="/wiki/Outgassing" title="Outgassing">outgassing</a> of water during the Earth's formative period was insufficient to form the oceans, requiring an external source such as a cometary bombardment.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The outer asteroid belt appears to include a few objects that may have arrived there during the last few hundred years, the list includes <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(457175)_2008_GO98" title="(457175) 2008 GO98">(457175) 2008 GO<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">98</span></span></a></span> also known as 362P.<sup id="cite_ref-new_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-new-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg/350px-Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg/525px-Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg/700px-Main_belt_asteroid_size_distribution.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="537" data-file-height="348" /></a><figcaption>Size distribution of asteroids in the main belt<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Contrary to popular imagery, the asteroid belt is mostly empty. The asteroids are spread over such a large volume that reaching an asteroid without aiming carefully would be improbable. Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of asteroids are currently known, and the total number ranges in the millions or more, depending on the lower size cutoff. Over 200 asteroids are known to be larger than 100 km,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a survey in the infrared wavelengths has shown that the asteroid belt has between 700,000 and 1.7 million asteroids with a diameter of 1 km or more.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The number of asteroids in the main belt steadily increases with decreasing size. Although the size distribution generally follows a <a href="/wiki/Power_law" title="Power law">power law</a>, there are 'bumps' in the curve at about <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7003500000000000000♠"></span>5 km</span> and <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005100000000000000♠"></span>100 km</span>, where more asteroids than expected from such a curve are found. Most asteroids larger than approximately <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005120000000000000♠"></span>120 km</span> in diameter are primordial, having survived from the accretion epoch, whereas most smaller asteroids are products of fragmentation of primordial asteroids. The primordial population of the main belt was probably 200 times what it is today.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Absolute_magnitude" title="Absolute magnitude">absolute magnitudes</a> of most of the known asteroids are between 11 and 19, with the median at about 16.<sup id="cite_ref-mpc_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mpc-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On average the distance between the asteroids is about 965,600 km (600,000 miles),<sup id="cite_ref-EarthSky_Updates_on_your_cosmos_and_world_2021_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarthSky_Updates_on_your_cosmos_and_world_2021-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Williams_2016_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams_2016-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although this varies among asteroid families and smaller undetected asteroids might be even closer. The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7021239000000000000♠"></span>2.39<span style="margin-left:0.25em;margin-right:0.15em;">×</span>10<sup>21</sup></span> kg, which is 3% of the mass of the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-Pitjeva2018_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pitjeva2018-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The four largest objects, Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea, contain an estimated 62% of the belt's total mass, with 39% accounted for by Ceres alone.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-halfmass_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-halfmass-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composition">Composition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types" title="Asteroid spectral types">Asteroid spectral types</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg/350px-Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg/525px-Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg/700px-Asteroid_populations_by_orbital_distance.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1098" data-file-height="684" /></a><figcaption>Distribution of asteroid spectral types by distance from the Sun<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The present day belt consists primarily of three categories of asteroids: C-type carbonaceous asteroids, <a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a> silicate asteroids, and a hybrid group of X-type asteroids. The hybrid group have featureless spectra, but they can be divided into three groups based on reflectivity, yielding the <a href="/wiki/M-type_asteroid" title="M-type asteroid">M-type</a> metallic, P-type primitive, and E-type <a href="/wiki/Enstatite" title="Enstatite">enstatite</a> asteroids. Additional types have been found that do not fit within these primary classes. There is a compositional trend of asteroid types by increasing distance from the Sun, in the order of S, C, P, and the spectrally-featureless <a href="/wiki/D-type_asteroid" title="D-type asteroid">D-types</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DeMeo_et_al_2015_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeMeo_et_al_2015-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AllendeMeteorite.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/AllendeMeteorite.jpg/220px-AllendeMeteorite.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/AllendeMeteorite.jpg/330px-AllendeMeteorite.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/AllendeMeteorite.jpg/440px-AllendeMeteorite.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Fragment of the <a href="/wiki/Allende_meteorite" title="Allende meteorite">Allende meteorite</a>, a carbonaceous chondrite that fell to Earth in Mexico in 1969</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">Carbonaceous asteroids</a>, as their name suggests, are carbon-rich. They dominate the asteroid belt's outer regions,<sup id="cite_ref-ApJ133_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ApJ133-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and are rare in the inner belt.<sup id="cite_ref-DeMeo_et_al_2015_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeMeo_et_al_2015-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together they comprise over 75% of the visible asteroids. They are redder in hue than the other asteroids and have a low <a href="/wiki/Albedo" title="Albedo">albedo</a>. Their surface compositions are similar to <a href="/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondrite" title="Carbonaceous chondrite">carbonaceous chondrite</a> <a href="/wiki/Meteorite" title="Meteorite">meteorites</a>. Chemically, their spectra match the primordial composition of the early Solar System, with hydrogen, helium, and <a href="/wiki/Volatile_(astrogeology)" title="Volatile (astrogeology)">volatiles</a> removed.<sup id="cite_ref-Blair_2002_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blair_2002-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>S-type (<a href="/wiki/Silicate" title="Silicate">silicate</a>-rich) asteroids are more common toward the inner region of the belt, within 2.5 AU of the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-ApJ133_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ApJ133-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The spectra of their surfaces reveal the presence of silicates and some metal, but no significant carbonaceous compounds. This indicates that their materials have been significantly modified from their primordial composition, probably through melting and reformation. They have a relatively high albedo and form about 17% of the total asteroid population.<sup id="cite_ref-Blair_2002_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blair_2002-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>M-type (metal-rich) asteroids are typically found in the middle of the main belt, and they make up much of the remainder of the total population.<sup id="cite_ref-Blair_2002_74-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blair_2002-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their spectra resemble that of iron-nickel. Some are believed to have formed from the metallic cores of differentiated progenitor bodies that were <a href="/wiki/Disrupted_planet" title="Disrupted planet">disrupted</a> through collision. However, some silicate compounds also can produce a similar appearance. For example, the large M-type asteroid <a href="/wiki/22_Kalliope" title="22 Kalliope">22 Kalliope</a> does not appear to be primarily composed of metal.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within the asteroid belt, the number distribution of M-type asteroids peaks at a semimajor axis of about 2.7 AU.<sup id="cite_ref-lang2003_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang2003-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whether all M-types are compositionally similar, or whether it is a label for several varieties which do not fit neatly into the main C and S classes is not yet clear.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One mystery is the relative rarity of <a href="/wiki/V-type_asteroid" title="V-type asteroid">V-type</a> (Vestoid) or <a href="/wiki/Basaltic" class="mw-redirect" title="Basaltic">basaltic</a> asteroids in the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-Duffard_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duffard-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Theories of asteroid formation predict that objects the size of Vesta or larger should form crusts and mantles, which would be composed mainly of basaltic rock, resulting in more than half of all asteroids being composed either of basalt or of <a href="/wiki/Olivine" title="Olivine">olivine</a>. However, observations suggest that 99% of the predicted basaltic material is missing.<sup id="cite_ref-olivine_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olivine-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until 2001, most basaltic bodies discovered in the asteroid belt were believed to originate from the asteroid Vesta (hence their name V-type), but the discovery of the asteroid <a href="/wiki/1459_Magnya" title="1459 Magnya">1459 Magnya</a> revealed a slightly different chemical composition from the other basaltic asteroids discovered until then, suggesting a different origin.<sup id="cite_ref-olivine_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olivine-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This hypothesis was reinforced by the further discovery in 2007 of two asteroids in the outer belt, <a href="/wiki/7472_Kumakiri" class="mw-redirect" title="7472 Kumakiri">7472 Kumakiri</a> and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(10537)_1991_RY16" class="mw-redirect" title="(10537) 1991 RY16">(10537) 1991 RY<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">16</span></span></a></span>, with a differing basaltic composition that could not have originated from Vesta. These two are the only V-type asteroids discovered in the outer belt to date.<sup id="cite_ref-Duffard_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duffard-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg/220px-Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg/330px-Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg/440px-Hubble_views_extraordinary_multi-tailed_asteroid_P2013_P5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2052" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble</a> views the multi-tailed cometary asteroid <a href="/wiki/P/2013_P5" class="mw-redirect" title="P/2013 P5">P/2013 P5</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </figcaption></figure> <p>The temperature of the asteroid belt varies with the distance from the Sun. For dust particles within the belt, typical temperatures range from 200 K (−73 °C) at 2.2 AU down to 165 K (−108 °C) at 3.2 AU.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, due to rotation, the surface temperature of an asteroid can vary considerably as the sides are alternately exposed to solar radiation then to the stellar background. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main-belt_comets">Main-belt comets</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Main-belt comets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Main-belt_comet" class="mw-redirect" title="Main-belt comet">Main-belt comet</a></div> <p>Several otherwise unremarkable bodies in the outer belt show <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">cometary</a> activity. Because their orbits cannot be explained through the capture of classical comets, many of the outer asteroids are thought to be icy, with the ice occasionally exposed to sublimation through small impacts. Main-belt comets may have been a major source of the Earth's oceans because the deuterium-hydrogen ratio is too low for classical comets to have been the principal source.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orbits">Orbits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Orbits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_belt_e_vs_a.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Main_belt_e_vs_a.png/300px-Main_belt_e_vs_a.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Main_belt_e_vs_a.png/450px-Main_belt_e_vs_a.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Main_belt_e_vs_a.png/600px-Main_belt_e_vs_a.png 2x" data-file-width="1086" data-file-height="834" /></a><figcaption>The asteroid belt (showing eccentricities), with the asteroid belt in red and blue ("core" region in red)</figcaption></figure> <p>Most asteroids within the asteroid belt have orbital eccentricities of less than 0.4, and an inclination of less than 30°. The orbital distribution of the asteroids reaches a maximum at an eccentricity around 0.07 and an inclination below 4°.<sup id="cite_ref-mpc_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mpc-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, although a typical asteroid has a relatively circular orbit and lies near the plane of the <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">ecliptic</a>, some asteroid orbits can be highly eccentric or travel well outside the ecliptic plane. </p><p>Sometimes, the term "main belt" is used to refer only to the more compact "core" region where the greatest concentration of bodies is found. This lies between the strong 4:1 and 2:1 <a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_gap" title="Kirkwood gap">Kirkwood gaps</a> at 2.06 and 3.27 AU, and at <a href="/wiki/Eccentricity_(orbit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eccentricity (orbit)">orbital eccentricities</a> less than roughly 0.33, along with orbital <a href="/wiki/Inclination" class="mw-redirect" title="Inclination">inclinations</a> below about 20°. As of 2006<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, this "core" region contained 93% of all discovered and numbered minor planets within the Solar System.<sup id="cite_ref-basedon1_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basedon1-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/JPL_Small-Body_Database" title="JPL Small-Body Database">JPL Small-Body Database</a> lists over 1 million known main-belt asteroids.<sup id="cite_ref-JPL-MBA_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JPL-MBA-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kirkwood_gaps">Kirkwood gaps</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Kirkwood gaps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_gap" title="Kirkwood gap">Kirkwood gap</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kirkwood_Gaps.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Kirkwood_Gaps.svg/320px-Kirkwood_Gaps.svg.png" decoding="async" width="320" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Kirkwood_Gaps.svg/480px-Kirkwood_Gaps.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Kirkwood_Gaps.svg/640px-Kirkwood_Gaps.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="792" data-file-height="612" /></a><figcaption>Number of asteroids in the main belt as a function of their <a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">semimajor axis</a> (a). The dashed lines indicate <a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_gaps" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirkwood gaps">Kirkwood gaps</a>, while colors designate the following zones:<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #333;background-color:#005aff; color:white;"> </span> I: inner main-belt (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes"><i>a</i></a> < 2.5 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a></span>)</span><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #222;background-color:#ffa500; color:black;"> </span> II: middle main-belt (<span class="nowrap">2.5 AU < <i>a</i> < 2.82 AU</span>)</span><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #333;background-color:#55d400; color:black;"> </span> III: outer main-belt (<span class="nowrap"><i>a</i> > 2.82 AU</span>)</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">semimajor axis</a> of an asteroid is used to describe the dimensions of its orbit around the Sun, and its value determines the minor planet's <a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">orbital period</a>. In 1866, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Kirkwood" title="Daniel Kirkwood">Daniel Kirkwood</a> announced the discovery of gaps in the distances of these bodies' orbits from the Sun. They were located in positions where their period of revolution about the Sun was an integer fraction of Jupiter's orbital period. Kirkwood proposed that the gravitational perturbations of the planet led to the removal of asteroids from these orbits.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the mean orbital period of an asteroid is an integer fraction of the orbital period of Jupiter, a <a href="/wiki/Mean-motion_resonance" class="mw-redirect" title="Mean-motion resonance">mean-motion resonance</a> with the gas giant is created that is sufficient to perturb an asteroid to new <a href="/wiki/Orbital_element" class="mw-redirect" title="Orbital element">orbital elements</a>. Primordial asteroids entered these gaps because of the migration of Jupiter's orbit.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, asteroids primarily migrate into these gap orbits due to the <a href="/wiki/Yarkovsky_effect" title="Yarkovsky effect">Yarkovsky effect</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DeMeo_et_al_2015_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeMeo_et_al_2015-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but may also enter because of perturbations or collisions. After entering, an asteroid is gradually nudged into a different, random orbit with a larger or smaller semimajor axis. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collisions">Collisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Collisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zodiacal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Zodiacal.jpg/220px-Zodiacal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Zodiacal.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="324" data-file-height="236" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Zodiacal_light" title="Zodiacal light">zodiacal light</a>, parts of which are reflected by <a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_dust" class="mw-redirect" title="Interplanetary dust">interplanetary dust</a>, which in turn originates in part from collisions of asteroids.</figcaption></figure> <p>The high population of the asteroid belt makes for an active environment, where collisions between asteroids occur frequently (on <a href="/wiki/Deep_time" title="Deep time">deep time</a> scales). <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">Impact events</a> between main-belt bodies with a mean radius of 10 km are expected to occur about once every 10 million years.<sup id="cite_ref-backman_report_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-backman_report-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A collision may fragment an asteroid into numerous smaller pieces (leading to the formation of a new <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">asteroid family</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Conversely, collisions that occur at low relative speeds may also join two asteroids. After more than 4 billion years of such processes, the members of the asteroid belt now bear little resemblance to the original population. </p><p>Evidence suggests that most main belt asteroids between 200 m and 10 km in diameter are <a href="/wiki/Rubble_pile" title="Rubble pile">rubble piles</a> formed by collisions. These bodies consist of a multitude of irregular objects that are mostly bound together by self-gravity, resulting in significant amounts of internal <a href="/wiki/Porosity" title="Porosity">porosity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along with the asteroid bodies, the asteroid belt also contains bands of dust with particle radii of up to a few hundred <a href="/wiki/Micrometre" title="Micrometre">micrometres</a>. This fine material is produced, at least in part, from collisions between asteroids, and by the impact of micrometeorites upon the asteroids. Due to the <a href="/wiki/Poynting%E2%80%93Robertson_effect" title="Poynting–Robertson effect">Poynting–Robertson effect</a>, the pressure of <a href="/wiki/Solar_radiation" class="mw-redirect" title="Solar radiation">solar radiation</a> causes this dust to slowly spiral inward toward the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-apj392_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apj392-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The combination of this fine asteroid dust, as well as ejected cometary material, produces the <a href="/wiki/Zodiacal_light" title="Zodiacal light">zodiacal light</a>. This faint auroral glow can be viewed at night extending from the direction of the Sun along the plane of the <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">ecliptic</a>. Asteroid particles that produce visible zodiacal light average about 40 μm in radius. The typical lifetimes of main-belt zodiacal cloud particles are about 700,000 years. Thus, to maintain the bands of dust, new particles must be steadily produced within the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-apj392_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apj392-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was once thought that collisions of asteroids form a major component of the zodiacal light. However, computer simulations by Nesvorný and colleagues attributed 85 percent of the zodiacal-light dust to fragmentations of Jupiter-family comets, rather than to comets and collisions between asteroids in the asteroid belt. At most 10 percent of the dust is attributed to the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-zodiacallightJFC_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zodiacallightJFC-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meteorites">Meteorites</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Meteorites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of the debris from collisions can form <a href="/wiki/Meteoroid" title="Meteoroid">meteoroids</a> that enter the Earth's atmosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Meteorites" class="mw-redirect" title="Meteorites">meteorites</a> found on Earth to date, 99.8 percent are believed to have originated in the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Families_and_groups">Families and groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Families and groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">Asteroid family</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png/300px-Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png/450px-Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png/600px-Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_e.png 2x" data-file-width="1037" data-file-height="842" /></a><figcaption>This plot of orbital inclination (<i>i<sub>p</sub></i>) versus eccentricity (<i>e<sub>p</sub></i>) for the numbered main-belt asteroids clearly shows clumpings representing asteroid families.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png/300px-Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png/450px-Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Overview of the Inner Solar System asteroids up to the <a href="/wiki/Jovian_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Jovian System">Jovian System</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png/240px-Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="511" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png/360px-Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Inner_solar_system_linear_map.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="851" /></a><figcaption>Linear overview of the Inner Solar System bodies</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1918, the Japanese astronomer <a href="/wiki/Kiyotsugu_Hirayama" title="Kiyotsugu Hirayama">Kiyotsugu Hirayama</a> noticed that the orbits of some of the asteroids had similar parameters, forming families or groups.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Approximately one-third of the asteroids in the asteroid belt are members of an asteroid family. These share similar <a href="/wiki/Orbital_elements" title="Orbital elements">orbital elements</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Semi-major_axis" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-major axis">semi-major axis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">eccentricity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">orbital inclination</a> as well as similar spectral features, which indicate a common origin in the breakup of a larger body. Graphical displays of these element pairs, for members of the asteroid belt, show concentrations indicating the presence of an asteroid family. There are about 20 to 30 associations that are likely asteroid families. Additional groupings have been found that are less certain. Asteroid families can be confirmed when the members display similar spectral features.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smaller associations of asteroids are called groups or clusters. </p><p>Some of the most prominent families in the asteroid belt (in order of increasing semi-major axes) are the <a href="/wiki/Flora_family" title="Flora family">Flora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eunomia_family" title="Eunomia family">Eunomia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Koronis_family" title="Koronis family">Koronis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eos_family" title="Eos family">Eos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Themis_family" title="Themis family">Themis</a> families.<sup id="cite_ref-lang2003_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang2003-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Flora family, one of the largest with more than 800 known members, may have formed from a collision less than 1 billion years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest asteroid to be a true member of a family is 4 Vesta. (This is in contrast to an interloper, in the case of Ceres with the <a href="/wiki/Gefion_family" title="Gefion family">Gefion family</a>.) The <a href="/wiki/Vesta_family" title="Vesta family">Vesta family</a> is believed to have formed as the result of a crater-forming impact on Vesta. Likewise, the <a href="/wiki/HED_meteorite" title="HED meteorite">HED meteorites</a> may also have originated from Vesta as a result of this collision.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three prominent bands of dust have been found within the asteroid belt. These have similar orbital inclinations as the Eos, Koronis, and Themis asteroid families, and so are possibly associated with those groupings.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main belt evolution after the Late Heavy Bombardment was likely affected by the passages of large Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Centaurs and TNOs that reach the inner Solar System can modify the orbits of main belt asteroids, though only if their mass is of the order of <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7021198855000000000♠"></span>10<sup>−9</sup> <a href="/wiki/Solar_mass" title="Solar mass"><i>M</i><sub>☉</sub></a></span> for single encounters or, one order less in case of multiple close encounters. However, Centaurs and TNOs are unlikely to have significantly dispersed young asteroid families in the main belt, although they can have perturbed some old asteroid families. Current main belt asteroids that originated as Centaurs or trans-Neptunian objects may lie in the outer belt with short lifetime of less than 4 million years, most likely orbiting between 2.8 and 3.2 AU at larger eccentricities than typical of main belt asteroids.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periphery">Periphery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Periphery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Skirting the inner edge of the belt (ranging between 1.78 and 2.0 AU, with a mean semi-major axis of 1.9 AU) is the <a href="/wiki/Hungaria_family" title="Hungaria family">Hungaria family</a> of minor planets. They are named after the main member, <a href="/wiki/434_Hungaria" title="434 Hungaria">434 Hungaria</a>; the group contains at least 52 named asteroids. The Hungaria group is separated from the main body by the 4:1 Kirkwood gap and their orbits have a high inclination. Some members belong to the Mars-crossing category of asteroids, and gravitational perturbations by Mars are likely a factor in reducing the total population of this group.<sup id="cite_ref-hungaria_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hungaria-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another high-inclination group in the inner part of the asteroid belt is the <a href="/wiki/Phocaea_family" title="Phocaea family">Phocaea family</a>. These are composed primarily of S-type asteroids, whereas the neighboring Hungaria family includes some <a href="/wiki/E-type_asteroid" title="E-type asteroid">E-types</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Phocaea family orbit between 2.25 and 2.5 AU from the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Skirting the outer edge of the asteroid belt is the <a href="/wiki/Cybele_asteroids" title="Cybele asteroids">Cybele group</a>, orbiting between 3.3 and 3.5 AU. These have a 7:4 orbital resonance with Jupiter. The <a href="/wiki/Hilda_family" title="Hilda family">Hilda family</a> orbit between 3.5 and 4.2 AU with relatively circular orbits and a stable 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter. There are few asteroids beyond 4.2 AU, until Jupiter's orbit. At the latter the two families of <a href="/wiki/Trojan_asteroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Trojan asteroid">Trojan asteroids</a> can be found, which, at least for objects larger than 1 km, are approximately as numerous as the asteroids of the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_families">New families</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: New families"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some asteroid families have formed recently, in astronomical terms. The <a href="/wiki/Karin_family" title="Karin family">Karin family</a> apparently formed about 5.7 million years ago from a collision with a progenitor asteroid 33 km in radius.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/490_Veritas" title="490 Veritas">Veritas family</a> formed about 8.3 million years ago; evidence includes interplanetary dust recovered from <a href="/wiki/Ocean_sediment" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean sediment">ocean sediment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>More recently, the <a href="/wiki/1270_Datura" title="1270 Datura">Datura cluster</a> appears to have formed about 530,000 years ago from a collision with a main-belt asteroid. The age estimate is based on the probability of the members having their current orbits, rather than from any physical evidence. However, this cluster may have been a source for some zodiacal dust material.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other recent cluster formations, such as the <a href="/wiki/4652_Iannini" class="mw-redirect" title="4652 Iannini">Iannini cluster</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1–5</span> million years ago), may have provided additional sources of this asteroid dust.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploration">Exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg/220px-Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg/330px-Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg/440px-Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1147" /></a><figcaption>Artist's concept of the <i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)">Dawn</a></i> spacecraft with <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">Vesta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt was <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></i>, which entered the region on 16 July 1972. At the time there was some concern that the debris in the belt would pose a hazard to the spacecraft, but it has since been safely traversed by multiple spacecraft without incident. <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_11" title="Pioneer 11">Pioneer 11</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program"><i>Voyagers 1</i> and <i>2</i></a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_probe" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulysses probe">Ulysses</a></i> passed through the belt without imaging any asteroids. <i><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini</a></i> measured plasma and fine dust grains while traversing the belt in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On its way to Jupiter, <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i> traversed the asteroid belt without collecting science data.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to the low density of materials within the belt, the odds of a probe running into an asteroid are estimated at less than 1 in 1 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most main belt asteroids imaged to date have come from brief <a href="/wiki/Planetary_flyby" title="Planetary flyby">flyby</a> opportunities by probes headed for other targets. Only the <a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)"><i>Dawn</i></a> mission has studied main belt asteroids for a protracted period in orbit. The <i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">Galileo</a></i> spacecraft imaged <a href="/wiki/951_Gaspra" title="951 Gaspra">951 Gaspra</a> in 1991 and <a href="/wiki/243_Ida" title="243 Ida">243 Ida</a> in 1993, then <a href="/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" title="NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR</a> imaged <a href="/wiki/253_Mathilde" title="253 Mathilde">253 Mathilde</a> in 1997 and landed on near–Earth asteroid <a href="/wiki/433_Eros" title="433 Eros">433 Eros</a> in February 2001. <i><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini</a></i> imaged <a href="/wiki/2685_Masursky" title="2685 Masursky">2685 Masursky</a> in 2000, <i><a href="/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)" title="Stardust (spacecraft)">Stardust</a></i> imaged <a href="/wiki/5535_Annefrank" title="5535 Annefrank">5535 Annefrank</a> in 2002, <i><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i> imaged <a href="/wiki/132524_APL" title="132524 APL">132524 APL</a> in 2006, and <i><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta</a></i> imaged <a href="/wiki/2867_%C5%A0teins" title="2867 Šteins">2867 Šteins</a> in September 2008 and <a href="/wiki/21_Lutetia" title="21 Lutetia">21 Lutetia</a> in July 2010. <i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)">Dawn</a></i> orbited Vesta between July 2011 and September 2012 and has orbited Ceres since March 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lucy_(spacecraft)" title="Lucy (spacecraft)">Lucy</a></i> space probe made a flyby of <a href="/wiki/152830_Dinkinesh" title="152830 Dinkinesh">152830 Dinkinesh</a> in 2023, on its way to the Jupiter Trojans.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ESA's <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer" title="Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer">JUICE</a> mission will pass through the asteroid belt twice, with a proposed flyby of the asteroid <a href="/wiki/223_Rosa" title="223 Rosa">223 Rosa</a> in 2029.<sup id="cite_ref-Avdellidou_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avdellidou-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Psyche_(spacecraft)" title="Psyche (spacecraft)">Psyche</a></i> spacecraft is a NASA mission to the large M-type asteroid <a href="/wiki/16_Psyche" title="16 Psyche">16 Psyche</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_belt&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See 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asteroid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonization_of_the_asteroid_belt" title="Colonization of the asteroid belt">Colonization of the asteroid belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debris_disk" title="Debris disk">Debris disk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exoasteroid" title="Exoasteroid">Exoasteroid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exoasteroid_belt" class="mw-redirect" title="Exoasteroid belt">Exoasteroid belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_exceptional_asteroids" title="List of exceptional asteroids">List of exceptional asteroids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_minor_planets" title="List of missions to minor planets">List of missions to minor planets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)" title="Phaeton (hypothetical planet)">Phaeton (hypothetical planet)</a></li></ul></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Flybys</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini–Huygens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_2" title="Chang'e 2">Chang'e 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)" title="Clementine (spacecraft)">Clementine</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CONTOUR" title="CONTOUR">CONTOUR</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)" title="Deep Impact (spacecraft)">Deep Impact</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EPOXI" title="EPOXI">EPOXI</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_1" title="Deep Space 1">Deep Space 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_project" title="Galileo project">Galileo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halley_Armada" title="Halley Armada">Halley Armada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giotto_(spacecraft)" title="Giotto (spacecraft)">Giotto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakigake" title="Sakigake">Sakigake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suisei_(spacecraft)" title="Suisei (spacecraft)">Suisei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vega_1" title="Vega 1">Vega 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vega_2" title="Vega 2">Vega 2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer" title="International Cometary Explorer">International Cometary Explorer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LICIACube" title="LICIACube">LICIACube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_Asteroid_Scout" title="Near-Earth Asteroid Scout">NEA Scout</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" title="NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_6,_7,_8,_and_9#Pioneer_7" title="Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9">Pioneer 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PROCYON" title="PROCYON">PROCYON</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)" title="Stardust (spacecraft)">Stardust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)" title="Ulysses (spacecraft)">Ulysses</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orbiters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)">Dawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" title="NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Timeline of Rosetta (spacecraft)">Timeline</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Landers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa" title="Hayabusa">Hayabusa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MINERVA_(spacecraft)" title="MINERVA (spacecraft)">MINERVA</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2" title="Hayabusa2">Hayabusa2</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2#MASCOT" title="Hayabusa2">MASCOT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2#MINERVA-II" title="Hayabusa2">Rover-1A / HIBOU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2#MINERVA-II" title="Hayabusa2">Rover-1B / OWL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2#MINERVA-II" title="Hayabusa2">Rover-2</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" title="NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)" title="Philae (spacecraft)">Philae</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Impactors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)" title="Deep Impact (spacecraft)">Deep Impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test" title="Double Asteroid Redirection Test">DART</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AIDA_(international_space_cooperation)" title="AIDA (international space cooperation)">AIDA</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sample return</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa" title="Hayabusa">Hayabusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa2" title="Hayabusa2">Hayabusa2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)" title="Stardust (spacecraft)">Stardust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OSIRIS-REx" title="OSIRIS-REx">OSIRIS-REx</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Planned</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tianwen-2" title="Tianwen-2">Tianwen-2</a> (multiple flybys and sample return, 2025)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DESTINY%2B" title="DESTINY+">DESTINY+</a> (multiple flybys, 2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MBR_Explorer" title="MBR Explorer">MBR Explorer</a> (multiple flybys and orbiter, 2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Interceptor" title="Comet Interceptor">Comet Interceptor</a> (flyby, 2029)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Proposed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Shensuo_(spacecraft)" title="Shensuo (spacecraft)">Shensuo</a></i> (flybys, 2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASTER_(spacecraft)" title="ASTER (spacecraft)">ASTER</a> (orbiter, 2025)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramses_(spacecraft)" title="Ramses (spacecraft)">Ramses</a> (2029)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_Probe_(spacecraft)" title="Interstellar Probe (spacecraft)">Interstellar Probe</a></i> (flyby, 2030–2042)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Cancelled or <br />not developed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AGORA_mission" class="mw-redirect" title="AGORA mission">AGORA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AIDA_(international_space_cooperation)#History" title="AIDA (international space cooperation)">AIM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_Redirect_Mission" title="Asteroid Redirect Mission">Asteroid Redirect Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena_(spacecraft)" title="Athena (spacecraft)">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CAESAR_(spacecraft)" title="CAESAR (spacecraft)">CAESAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castalia_(spacecraft)" title="Castalia (spacecraft)">Castalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centaurus_(spacecraft_mission)" title="Centaurus (spacecraft mission)">Centaurus</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(spacecraft)" title="Chimera (spacecraft)">Chimera</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clementine_2" title="Clementine 2">Clementine 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Hopper" title="Comet Hopper">Comet Hopper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Nucleus_Dust_and_Organics_Return" title="Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return">CONDOR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Rendezvous,_Sample_Acquisition,_Investigation,_and_Return" title="Comet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Investigation, and Return">CORSAIR</a></li> <li><a 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style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Asteroid belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_capture" title="Asteroid capture">Asteroid capture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_mining" title="Asteroid mining">Asteroid mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonization_of_the_asteroids" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonization of the asteroids">Colonization of asteroids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Pluto" title="Exploration of Pluto">Exploration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_Solar_System_body" title="Small Solar System body">Small Solar System bodies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth object</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Main</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_exceptional_asteroids" title="List of exceptional asteroids">Notable asteroids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_asteroid_physical_characteristics" title="Standard asteroid physical characteristics">Physical characteristics</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dynamic_method" title="Dynamic method">dynamic method</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance" title="Asteroid impact avoidance">Impact avoidance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_Asteroid_Tracking" title="Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking">Tracking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole" title="Gravitational keyhole">Gravitational keyhole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Earth-crossing_minor_planets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Earth-crossing minor planets">Earth-crosser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth" title="List of asteroid close approaches to Earth">Close approaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binary_asteroid" title="Binary asteroid">Binary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Minor-planet_moon" title="Minor-planet moon">moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Contact binary (small Solar System body)">contact</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Active_asteroid" title="Active asteroid">Active</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_pair" title="Asteroid pair">Asteroid pair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palomar%E2%80%93Leiden_survey" title="Palomar–Leiden survey">Palomar–Leiden survey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Contact binary (small Solar System body)">Contact binary</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Distribution_within_the_Solar_System" title="Asteroid">Distribution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)" title="Trojan (celestial body)">Trojans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_ND15" title="2013 ND15">Venus trojan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_trojan" title="Earth trojan">Earth trojans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_trojan" title="Mars trojan">Mars trojans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_trojan" title="Jupiter trojan">Jupiter trojans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_UO14" title="2019 UO14">Saturn trojan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_trojan" class="mw-redirect" title="Uranus trojan">Uranus trojans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neptune_trojan" title="Neptune trojan">Neptune trojans</a></li></ul></li> <li>Interior to Earth <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vulcanoid" title="Vulcanoid">Vulcanoids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mercury-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Mercury-crossing minor planets">Mercury-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Venus-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Venus-crossing minor planets">Venus-crossers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aten_asteroid" title="Aten asteroid">Aten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amor_asteroid" title="Amor asteroid">Amor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_asteroid" title="Apollo asteroid">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atira_asteroid" title="Atira asteroid">Atira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Earth-crossing_minor_planets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Earth-crossing minor planets">Earth-crossers</a></li></ul></li> <li>Between Earth and the main belt <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mars-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Mars-crossing minor planets">Mars crossers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Asteroid belt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_gap" title="Kirkwood gap">Kirkwood gap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Active_asteroid" title="Active asteroid">Active asteroids</a></li></ul></li> <li>Outer Solar System, does not include <a href="/wiki/Distant_minor_planet" title="Distant minor planet">distant minor planets</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets">Jupiter-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Saturn-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Saturn-crossing minor planets">Saturn-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Uranus-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Uranus-crossing minor planets">Uranus-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Neptune-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Neptune-crossing minor planets">Neptune-crossers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centaur_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Centaur (small Solar System body)">Centaurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exoasteroid" title="Exoasteroid">Exoasteroids</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Classification" title="Asteroid">Classification</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Orbital_classification" title="Asteroid">Orbital</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor-planet_groups" title="List of minor-planet groups">Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">Family</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Asteroid_groups_and_families" title="Category:Asteroid groups and families">(list)</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types" title="Asteroid spectral types">Spectral</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types#Tholen_classification" title="Asteroid spectral types">Tholen</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid#C-group_(Tholen)" title="C-type asteroid">C-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B-type_asteroid" title="B-type asteroid">B-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F-type_asteroid" title="F-type asteroid">F-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G-type_asteroid" title="G-type asteroid">G-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">C-type</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-type_asteroid" title="X-type asteroid">X-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M-type_asteroid" title="M-type asteroid">M-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E-type_asteroid" title="E-type asteroid">E-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P-type_asteroid" title="P-type asteroid">P-type</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>small classes</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-type_asteroid" title="A-type asteroid">A-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-type_asteroid" title="D-type asteroid">D-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J-type_asteroid" title="J-type asteroid">J-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T-type_asteroid" title="T-type asteroid">T-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-type_asteroid" title="Q-type asteroid">Q-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-type_asteroid" title="R-type asteroid">R-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V-type_asteroid" title="V-type asteroid">V-type</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types#SMASS_classification" title="Asteroid spectral types">SMASS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid#C-group_(SMASS)" title="C-type asteroid">C-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B-type_asteroid" title="B-type asteroid">B-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">C-type</a></li> <li>Cg</li> <li>Ch</li> <li>Cgh</li> <li>Cb</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-type_asteroid" title="A-type asteroid">A-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-type_asteroid" title="Q-type asteroid">Q-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-type_asteroid" title="R-type asteroid">R-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-type_asteroid" title="K-type asteroid">K-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L-type_asteroid" title="L-type asteroid">L-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a></li> <li>Sa</li> <li>Sq</li> <li>Sr</li> <li>Sk</li> <li>Sl</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/X-type_asteroid" title="X-type asteroid">X-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/X-type_asteroid" title="X-type asteroid">X-type</a></li> <li>Xe</li> <li>Xc</li> <li>Xk</li></ul></li> <li><i>small types</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T-type_asteroid" title="T-type asteroid">T-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-type_asteroid" title="D-type asteroid">D-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L-type_asteroid#Ld-type_asteroids" title="L-type asteroid">Ld-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O-type_asteroid" title="O-type asteroid">O-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V-type_asteroid" title="V-type asteroid">V-type</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Exploration" title="Asteroid">Exploration</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets_and_comets_visited_by_spacecraft" title="List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft">Asteroids visited by spacecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_mining" title="Asteroid mining">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_capture" title="Asteroid capture">Capture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonization_of_the_asteroids" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonization of the asteroids">Colonization</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Lists_of_asteroids" title="Category:Lists of asteroids">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_near-Earth_asteroids_by_distance_from_Sun" title="List of near-Earth asteroids by distance from Sun">Near-Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets" title="List of minor planets">Minor planets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_minor_planet" title="Lost minor planet">Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid-discovering_observatories" title="List of asteroid-discovering observatories">Discovering observatories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_minor_planets" title="List of missions to minor planets">Space missions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_Day" title="Asteroid Day">Asteroid Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroids_in_fiction" title="Asteroids in fiction">Asteroids in fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroids_in_astrology" class="mw-redirect" title="List of asteroids in astrology">Asteroids in astrology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occultation#Occultations_by_smaller_bodies" title="Occultation">occultation</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">Comet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">Minor planet</a></li></ul> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" 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title="2 Pallas">Pallas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesoplanet" title="Mesoplanet">Mesoplanet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planemo" class="mw-redirect" title="Planemo">Planemo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Consensus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Ceres" title="Geology of Ceres">Geology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)#Atmosphere" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Atmosphere</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">Moon</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Pluto" title="Geology of Pluto">Geology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Pluto" title="Atmosphere of Pluto">Atmosphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto" title="Moons of Pluto">Moons</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Haumea" title="Haumea">Haumea</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Haumea" title="Moons of Haumea">Moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haumea#Ring" title="Haumea">Ring</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Makemake" title="Makemake">Makemake</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S/2015_(136472)_1" title="S/2015 (136472) 1">Moon</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Quaoar" title="Quaoar">Quaoar</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Weywot" title="Weywot">Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaoar#Rings" title="Quaoar">Rings</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)" title="Eris (dwarf planet)">Eris</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(moon)" title="Dysnomia (moon)">Moon</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gonggong_(dwarf_planet)" title="Gonggong (dwarf planet)">Gonggong</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xiangliu_(moon)" title="Xiangliu (moon)">Moon</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)" title="Sedna (dwarf planet)">Sedna</a></b></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px;padding-left: 0.5em;"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_(22381131691)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/110px-Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/165px-Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_%2822381131691%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="852" data-file-height="836" /></a></span><br /><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg/110px-Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg/165px-Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg/220px-Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8000" data-file-height="8000" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Candidate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">Asteroids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_Hygiea" title="10 Hygiea">Hygiea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/704_Interamnia" title="704 Interamnia">Interamnia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Centaur_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Centaur (small Solar System body)">Centaurs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10199_Chariklo" title="10199 Chariklo">Chariklo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2060_Chiron" title="2060 Chiron">Chiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5145_Pholus" title="5145 Pholus">Pholus</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(44594)_1999_OX3" title="(44594) 1999 OX3">1999 OX<sub>3</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(501214)_2013_TC146" class="mw-redirect" title="(501214) 2013 TC146">2013 TC<sub>146</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523727)_2014_NW65" title="(523727) 2014 NW65">2014 NW<sub>65</sub></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plutino" title="Plutino">Plutinos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/38628_Huya" title="38628 Huya">Huya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28978_Ixion" title="28978 Ixion">Ixion</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(469372)_2001_QF298" title="(469372) 2001 QF298">2001 QF<sub>298</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(84719)_2002_VR128" title="(84719) 2002 VR128">2002 VR<sub>128</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(612533)_2002_XV93" title="(612533) 2002 XV93">2002 XV<sub>93</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(208996)_2003_AZ84" title="(208996) 2003 AZ84">2003 AZ<sub>84</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(455502)_2003_UZ413" title="(455502) 2003 UZ413">2003 UZ<sub>413</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(84922)_2003_VS2" title="(84922) 2003 VS2">2003 VS<sub>2</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(470308)_2007_JH43" title="(470308) 2007 JH43">2007 JH<sub>43</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_OF69" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 OF69">2017 OF<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">69</span></span></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object#1:2_resonance_("twotinos",_period_~330_years)" title="Resonant trans-Neptunian object">Twotinos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(119979)_2002_WC19" title="(119979) 2002 WC19">2002 WC<sub>19</sub></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Classical_Kuiper_belt_object" title="Classical Kuiper belt object">Cubewanos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/19521_Chaos" title="19521 Chaos">Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/120347_Salacia" title="120347 Salacia">Salacia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/174567_Varda" title="174567 Varda">Varda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20000_Varuna" title="20000 Varuna">Varuna</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(35671)_1998_SN165" title="(35671) 1998 SN165">1998 SN<sub>165</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(55565)_2002_AW197" title="(55565) 2002 AW197">2002 AW<sub>197</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2002_CY248" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 CY248">2002 CY<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">248</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(119951)_2002_KX14" title="(119951) 2002 KX14">2002 KX<sub>14</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(307261)_2002_MS4" title="(307261) 2002 MS4">2002 MS<sub>4</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(55637)_2002_UX25" title="(55637) 2002 UX25">2002 UX<sub>25</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(307616)_2003_QW90" class="mw-redirect" title="(307616) 2003 QW90">2003 QW<sub>90</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(90568)_2004_GV9" title="(90568) 2004 GV9">2004 GV<sub>9</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(444030)_2004_NT33" title="(444030) 2004 NT33">2004 NT<sub>33</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(175113)_2004_PF115" title="(175113) 2004 PF115">2004 PF<sub>115</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(120348)_2004_TY364" title="(120348) 2004 TY364">2004 TY<sub>364</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(144897)_2004_UX10" title="(144897) 2004 UX10">2004 UX<sub>10</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(145452)_2005_RN43" title="(145452) 2005 RN43">2005 RN<sub>43</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(202421)_2005_UQ513" title="(202421) 2005 UQ513">2005 UQ<sub>513</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_FX86" title="2010 FX86">2010 FX<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">86</span></span></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other KBOs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(469306)_1999_CD158" title="(469306) 1999 CD158">1999 CD<sub>158</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(26375)_1999_DE9" title="(26375) 1999 DE9">1999 DE<sub>9</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(82075)_2000_YW134" title="(82075) 2000 YW134">2000 YW<sub>134</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(78799)_2002_XW93" title="(78799) 2002 XW93">2002 XW<sub>93</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(574372)_2010_JO179" title="(574372) 2010 JO179">2010 JO<sub>179</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523645)_2010_VK201" title="(523645) 2010 VK201">2010 VK<sub>201</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2011_FW62" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 FW62">2011 FW<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">62</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(471288)_2011_GM27" title="(471288) 2011 GM27">2011 GM<sub>27</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523671)_2013_FZ27" title="(523671) 2013 FZ27">2013 FZ<sub>27</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(472271)_2014_UM33" title="(472271) 2014 UM33">2014 UM<sub>33</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(495603)_2015_AM281" title="(495603) 2015 AM281">2015 AM<sub>281</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523794)_2015_RR245" title="(523794) 2015 RR245">2015 RR<sub>245</sub></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scattered_disc" title="Scattered disc">Scattered disc<br />objects</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/229762_G%C7%83k%C3%BAn%C7%81%CA%BCh%C3%B2md%C3%ADm%C3%A0" title="229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà">Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/471143_Dziewanna" title="471143 Dziewanna">Dziewanna</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(26181)_1996_GQ21" class="mw-redirect" title="(26181) 1996 GQ21">1996 GQ<sub>21</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(15874)_1996_TL66" title="(15874) 1996 TL66">1996 TL<sub>66</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(42301)_2001_UR163" title="(42301) 2001 UR163">2001 UR<sub>163</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(84522)_2002_TC302" title="(84522) 2002 TC302">2002 TC<sub>302</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(230965)_2004_XA192" title="(230965) 2004 XA192">2004 XA<sub>192</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(303775)_2005_QU182" title="(303775) 2005 QU182">2005 QU<sub>182</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(145451)_2005_RM43" title="(145451) 2005 RM43">2005 RM<sub>43</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_QH181" title="2006 QH181">2006 QH<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">181</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(470599)_2008_OG19" title="(470599) 2008 OG19">2008 OG<sub>19</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_KZ39" title="2010 KZ39">2010 KZ<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">39</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523639)_2010_RE64" title="(523639) 2010 RE64">2010 RE<sub>64</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(589683)_2010_RF43" title="(589683) 2010 RF43">2010 RF<sub>43</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_JO179" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 JO179">2010 JO<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">179</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_TJ" title="2010 TJ">2010 TJ</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(445473)_2010_VZ98" title="(445473) 2010 VZ98">2010 VZ<sub>98</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(532037)_2013_FY27" title="(532037) 2013 FY27">2013 FY<sub>27</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(543354)_2014_AN55" title="(543354) 2014 AN55">2014 AN<sub>55</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523692)_2014_EZ51" title="(523692) 2014 EZ51">2014 EZ<sub>51</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_UZ224" title="2014 UZ224">2014 UZ<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">224</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(523759)_2014_WK509" title="(523759) 2014 WK509">2014 WK<sub>509</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_KH162" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 KH162">2015 KH<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">162</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_RR245" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 RR245">2015 RR<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">245</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_FO161" title="2017 FO161">2017 FO<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">161</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_AG37" title="2018 AG37">2018 AG<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">37</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_VG18" title="2018 VG18">2018 VG<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">18</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_DR15" title="2021 DR15">2021 DR<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">15</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_LL37" title="2021 LL37">2021 LL<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">37</span></span></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Detached_object" title="Detached object">Detached objects</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(120132)_2003_FY128" title="(120132) 2003 FY128">2003 FY<sub>128</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(612584)_2003_QX113" title="(612584) 2003 QX113">2003 QX<sub>113</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(612911)_2004_XR190" title="(612911) 2004 XR190">2004 XR<sub>190</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(145480)_2005_TB190" title="(145480) 2005 TB190">2005 TB<sub>190</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(278361)_2007_JJ43" title="(278361) 2007 JJ43">2007 JJ<sub>43</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(528381)_2008_ST291" title="(528381) 2008 ST291">2008 ST<sub>291</sub></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sednoid" title="Sednoid">Sednoids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_VP113" title="2012 VP113">2012 VP<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">113</span></span></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="text-align: center;"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Dwarf_planets" title="Category:Dwarf planets">Category</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Craters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achita_(crater)" title="Achita (crater)">Achita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coniraya_(crater)" title="Coniraya (crater)">Coniraya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dantu_(crater)" title="Dantu (crater)">Dantu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezinu_(crater)" title="Ezinu (crater)">Ezinu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fejokoo_(crater)" title="Fejokoo (crater)">Fejokoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haulani_(crater)" title="Haulani (crater)">Haulani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerwan_(crater)" title="Kerwan (crater)">Kerwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawish_(crater)" title="Nawish (crater)">Nawish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occator_(crater)" title="Occator (crater)">Occator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxo_(crater)" title="Oxo (crater)">Oxo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sintana_(crater)" title="Sintana (crater)">Sintana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tupo_(crater)" title="Tupo (crater)">Tupo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urvara_(crater)" title="Urvara (crater)">Urvara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yalode_(crater)" title="Yalode (crater)">Yalode</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Montes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahuna_Mons" title="Ahuna Mons">Ahuna Mons</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Other features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bright_spots_on_Ceres" title="Bright spots on Ceres">Bright spots</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">Astronomy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Classification</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">Asteroid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Definition_of_planet" title="Definition of planet">Definition of planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">Dwarf planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">Planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet" title="IAU definition of planet">2006 definition of planet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Discovery</th><td 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Possible trojans and<br />co-orbitals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(185105)_2006_SV23" class="mw-redirect" title="(185105) 2006 SV23">(185105) 2006 SV<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">23</span></span></a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1372_Haremari" title="1372 Haremari">1372 Haremari</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(76146)_2000_EU16" title="(76146) 2000 EU16">(76146) 2000 EU<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">16</span></span></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">Exploration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oort_cloud" title="Oort cloud">Oort cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scattered_disc" title="Scattered disc">Scattered disc</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">Comets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Extinct_comet" title="Extinct comet">Extinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_comet" title="Great comet">Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Halley-type_comets" title="List of Halley-type comets">Halley-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_hyperbolic_comets" title="List of hyperbolic comets">Hyperbolic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_long-period_comets" title="List of long-period comets">Long-period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_comet" title="Lost comet">Lost</a></li> <li><a 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(moon)">Mimas</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Uranus" title="Rings of Uranus">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">28 moons</a>: <a href="/wiki/Titania_(moon)" title="Titania (moon)">Titania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oberon_(moon)" title="Oberon (moon)">Oberon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umbriel_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Umbriel (moon)">Umbriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_(moon)" title="Ariel (moon)">Ariel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_(moon)" title="Miranda (moon)">Miranda</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Neptune" title="Rings of Neptune">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Neptune" title="Moons of Neptune">16 moons</a>: <a href="/wiki/Triton_(moon)" title="Triton (moon)">Triton</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">Minor<br />planets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">Dwarf planets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/90482_Orcus" class="mw-redirect" title="90482 Orcus">Orcus</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">1 moon</a>: <a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">Vanth</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto" title="Moons of Pluto">5 moons</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charon_(moon)" title="Charon (moon)">Charon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hydra_(moon)" title="Hydra (moon)">Hydra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nix_(moon)" title="Nix (moon)">Nix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)" title="Kerberos (moon)">Kerberos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Styx_(moon)" title="Styx (moon)">Styx</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Haumea" title="Haumea">Haumea</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haumea#Ring" title="Haumea">Ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Haumea" title="Moons of Haumea">2 moons</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hi%CA%BBiaka_(moon)" title="Hiʻiaka (moon)">Hiʻiaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Namaka_(moon)" title="Namaka (moon)">Namaka</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/50000_Quaoar" class="mw-redirect" title="50000 Quaoar">Quaoar</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/50000_Quaoar#Rings" class="mw-redirect" title="50000 Quaoar">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weywot" title="Weywot">1 moon</a>: <a href="/wiki/Weywot" title="Weywot">Weywot</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a 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title="2 Pallas">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3_Juno" title="3 Juno">Juno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_Hygiea" title="10 Hygiea">Hygiea</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Asteroid_groups_and_families" title="Category:Asteroid groups and families">Groups and families</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth objects</a></li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Asteroid belt</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Trojan_asteroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Trojan asteroid">Trojans</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Venus_Trojan" class="mw-redirect" title="Venus Trojan">Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_trojan" title="Earth trojan">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_trojan" title="Mars trojan">Mars</a></li> <li><a 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title="Damocloid">Damocloids</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Oort_cloud" title="Oort cloud">Oort cloud objects</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hills_cloud" title="Hills cloud">Hills cloud</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">Comets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_comets" title="Lists of comets">Lists of comets</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_periodic_comets" title="List of periodic comets">Periodic comets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_non-periodic_comets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of non-periodic comets">Non-periodic comets</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sungrazing_comet" title="Sungrazing comet">Sungrazing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_comet" title="Great 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