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main-belt asteroid. The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System
located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It
is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or
minor planets. The asteroid belt is also termed the main asteroid belt
or main belt because there are other asteroids in the Solar System such
as near-Earth asteroids and trojan asteroids. Maybe half the mass of the
belt is contained in the four largest asteroids: 1 Ceres, 4 Vesta, 2
Pallas, and 10 Hygiea. These have mean diameters of more than 400 km,
while Ceres, the asteroid belt's only identified dwarf planet, is about
950 km in diameter.
