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The Asteroid Belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped asteroid bodies.

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Is the Asteroid (10) Hygiea going to be a promoted and dwarf planet soon?

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2024/10/19
08:40 UTC
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Flat Mars Society

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2022/10/15
16:07 UTC
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How Did The Solar System and Asteroid Belt Form?

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2019/08/04
23:57 UTC
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Minerva II1 rover 1A and 1B deployment imminent! Latest partial image shows the obvious shadow of Hayabusa 2

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2018/09/21
17:17 UTC
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GaiaDR2 - A Guide For Scientists - DR2 Solar Asteroid Objects

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2018/04/26
20:16 UTC
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Selected asteroids detected by Gaia between August 2014 and May 2016

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2018/04/26
20:14 UTC
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Animated view of the 14 099 asteroids in our Solar System, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission’s second data release. The orbits of the 200 brightest asteroids are also shown, as determined using Gaia data.

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2018/04/25
21:52 UTC
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Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World (NASA official)

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2018/04/17
20:59 UTC
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Scott Manley: How Did Astronomers Discover 700,000 Asteroids?

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2017/07/06
05:28 UTC
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Theory: the Asteroid Belt is the remains of a destroyed Fifth Planet

I know this is an old theory that has been widely debunked, but i'm hoping people can post some info and links that really make good cases for and against. /thanks

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2017/03/17
21:49 UTC
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Painted Stone: beautiful rendition of asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, by Alex Parker

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2016/10/26
02:01 UTC
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Trojans, Greeks, and Hildas (visualized here) form an "Asteroid Triangle" somewhat independent of the main Asteroid Belt (not shown)

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2016/09/25
03:53 UTC
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3d video visualization of the asteroid belt, by Scott Manley

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2016/09/22
15:22 UTC
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Scott Manley narrated video extensively describing decades of asteroid discovery (ultra HD)

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2016/09/22
15:12 UTC
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Scott Manley video depicts 45 years of asteroid discovery (1970-2015)

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2016/09/22
15:01 UTC
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