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What is the fate of the asteroid belt?
From what I understand the asteroid belt never formed into a planet because Jupiter threw off the gravity of all the small objects and they never could gather to form a planet. As described here: Why ...
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Vesta dwarf planet status
Now that we have close-up photos of Vesta, which the IAU had previously said was a candidate dwarf planet, when is the IAU going to decide the issue? Personally, Vesta doesn't look round enough to me.
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Why did the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter form as it did?
I'm curious about why the asteroid belt wasn't pulled by Mars's or Jupiter's gravity or formed into either moons or planets. Why did it form into an asteroid belt instead?
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What is the average distance between objects in our asteroid belt?
We've all seen scifi movies with asteroid belts that require "great skill" to fly through, but how dense is the asteroid belt really?
How much of the belt could you see from the surface of a given ...
