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rubble that never got the memo to become a planet.
means rocky, airless remnants of the solar system's formation, mostly stuck orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
from named in 1802 by William Herschel from Greek asteroeides, star-like, because through early telescopes they looked like faint points of light, not disks.
belt populationover a million bigger than half a mile wide
total masswhole belt is 4% of the moon's mass
dino connectionchicxulub impactor was likely one, 66 million years ago
famous residentceres is big enough to count as a dwarf planet