the.com/asteroid belt
the solar system's junk drawer, wedged between mars and jupiter.
means a torus of rocky debris orbiting the sun that never got the memo to become a planet.
from early astronomers found ceres in 1801, then more rocks in the same orbital lane, and assumed a shattered planet — turns out jupiter's gravity just bullied the debris out of forming one.
total massless than 4% of the moon's mass
cerescontains a third of the belt's entire mass
actual densityships pass through it without dodging anything
named blamejupiter's gravity stopped a planet from forming