What is between Mars and Jupiter in our Solar System?
Created | Updated Aug 24, 2006
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What is between Mars and Jupiter in our Solar System?
Mars in the fourth planets in our Solar System and is 141,640,000 miles (227,940,000 kilometers) from the Sun. The fifth planet in the Solar System at a distance of 483,650,000 miles (778,340,000 kilometers) is Jupiter the largest planet in the Solar System.
Mars has two moons called Phobos and Deimos and are 14,600 and 5,800 miles (23,500 and 9,350 kilometers) from Mars respectively. These moons are tiny. Phobos is 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) in diameter and tiny Deimos is only 7.8 miles (12.5 kilometers) in diameter. These two moons are irregular in shape and it is believed that they came from the asteroid belt.
Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a vast belt of asteroids. They could be the remnants of a planet that exploded millions of years ago but the most common theory is that they are what was left behind when the Solar System formed.
The six largest asteroids are called Vesta, Pallas, Ceres, Hygeia, Juno and Euphrosyne. Vesta takes 3.6 years of orbit the Sun. Pallas and Ceres take 4.6 years to orbit the Sun and Hygeia and Euphrosyne take 5.6 years. Juno takes 4.4 years to orbit the Sun.
Vesta is 219,000,000 miles (353,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun. It is 219 miles (352 kilometers) in diameter and was discovered in 1807.
Pallas is 257,000,000 miles (414,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun, 377 miles (607 kilometers) in diameter and was discovered in 1802 by the same person who discovered Vesta, Olbers.
The largest asteroid at 617 miles (993 kilometers) in diameter is Ceres. Ceres was discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi and is also 257,000,000 miles (414,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun.
Hygeia was discovered in 1849 by de Gasparis and is 280 miles (450 kilometers) in diameter. It is found at 293,000,000 miles (471,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun.
Juno was discovered in 1804 by Harding. It is 120 miles (190 kilometers) in diameter and is 248,000,000 miles (399,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun.
Lastly there is Euphrosyne that is 230 miles (370 kilometers) is diameter and is 294,000,000 miles (473,000,000 kilometers) from the Sun. Euphrosyne was discovered in 1854 by J. Ferguson.
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