Asteroids are chunks of rocks some as large as a mountain, some as small as your hand(meteorites),most asteroids are in this belt, between Mars and Jupiter, there are over 400,000 asteroids in the belt, that scientist have counted so far,
Asteroids can be pulled by a planet’s gravity, to become a planet moon,
The asteroid belt contains millions of asteroids , scientists estimate there are more than 750,000 with a diameter larger than 1km (0.6 miles), and 200 larger than 100km (60 miles)
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