Orbital Resonance in the Asteroid Belt

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The asteroid belt, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter, between about 2.2 to 3.2 astronomical units (310 to 500 million km) from the Sun, is a large collection of several hundred thousand irregularly shaped bodies variously called asteroids, planetesimals or minor planets.
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Contributed by: S. M. Blinder (April 2018)
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[1] Wikipedia. "Asteroid Belt." (Mar 27, 2018). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt.
[2] Wikipedia. "Orbital Resonance." (Mar 27, 2018). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance.
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Published: April 4 2018