General Science Solar System Flash Card Set 727009

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Asteroids

The solar system also contains over a million rocky fragments of at least 1km in diameter called asteroids as well as millions more with smaller diameters. Many of these asteroids are an asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

asteroid belt

Many of the asteroids in our solar system are a(n) __________ between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.