What is Asteroid belt

# Asteroids are remnants of planetary formation that circle the Sun in a zone lying between Mars and Jupiter. The circular chain of asteroids is called the asteroid belt.

# The remnants of planetary formation failed to coalesce because of the gravitational interference of Jupiter.

# The asteroid belt lies between 2.3 and 3.3 AU from the Sun.

# Asteroids (planetoids ― another term for an asteroid) are composed mainly of refractory rocky and metallic minerals, with some ice.

# Asteroids range in size from hundreds of kilometres across to microscopic.

# All asteroids except the largest, Ceres, are classified as small Solar System bodies.

# Fragments of asteroids break off to form meteoroids, which can reach the Earth’s surface.