FW: Asteroids

This info from the astronomer at the Planetarium, a couple of web sites
too

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> From: 	Allen, Richard
> Sent: 	Friday, 26 September 1997 12:39
> To:	Glover, Owen
> Subject:	RE: Asteroids
> Importance:	High
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> There are in fact a number of different Asteroid Belts, the main ones
> are;
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> *	The 'Main Asteroid Belt' - a doughnut-shaped ring located
> between Mars and Jupiter (186 000kms - 300 000kms from the Sun). The
> belt is not a continuous or homogenous grouping of objects, but you
> can say the average distance between asteroids is approximately 1
> million kilometers.
> *	The Kuiper Belt is just outside the orbit of Neptune. Little is
> known about this belt. The existence of this belt has been postulated
> for number of years (since the existence of Planet X took a dive), but
> only recently did observations of the belt turn up Asteroids. At the
> moment they are discovering a couple of asteroids a month.
> 
> 
> *	http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/asteroid.htm
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> *	http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/
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