ASTEROID BELT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asteroid belt mean? 

• ASTEROID BELT (noun)
  The noun ASTEROID BELT has 1 sense:

1. the region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found

  Familiarity information: ASTEROID BELT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTEROID BELT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("asteroid belt" is a kind of...):

belt (an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found)

Holonyms ("asteroid belt" is a part of...):

interplanetary space (the part of outer space within the solar system)

 Context examples 

The planet orbits roughly 300 million miles from the stellar duo, about the distance from the asteroid belt to our sun.

(Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars, NASA)

NASA's Dawn mission has found evidence for organic material on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

Ceres, with an average diameter of about 590 miles (950 kilometers), is the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

(Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole, NASA)

The object is the fourth largest in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta and Pallas.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

Another suggested several thin debris disks similar to our system, which has an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the Kuiper Belt of mostly icy objects beyond the dwarf planet Pluto.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

Ceres, with an average diameter of 950 kilometers, is the largest body in the asteroid belt, the strip of solar system real estate between Mars and Jupiter.

(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)

This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has been flung billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

However, scientists determined that even if Ceres migrated into the main asteroid belt relatively late in solar system history, it should still have a significant number of large craters.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

It might be related to large collisions taking place more than 300 million years ago in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the researchers noted.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)