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ASTEROID BELT
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HOW FAR AWAY IS THE ASTEROID BELT?
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* Because the asteroid belt is between the Mars and Jupiter orbits, it is around 2.2 to 3.2 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun – which is approximately 329,115,316 to 478,713,186 km.
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* The average distance between objects is a massive 600,000 miles. To put that number into perspective, the circumference of planet Earth is only 24,901.45 miles which makes the distance between objects in the asteroid belt more than 24 times the circumference of Earth.
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