How to Use asteroid belt in a Sentence

asteroid belt

noun
  • The rock resides in the asteroid belt and is one of the largest known to man.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • The spacecraft must pass through the main asteroid belt every time as well.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Who wouldn’t want a piece of the asteroid belt for Christmas?
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Which brings us to Ceres, a dwarf planet that is the largest body in the asteroid belt.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Ceres is the largest rock in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Try hunting down the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest rock in the main asteroid belt.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 May 2019
  • How could this process result in bodies the size of those in the asteroid belt, let alone whole planets?
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • About 20 percent of the dust likely came from the main asteroid belt.
    — Sarah Derouin, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2021
  • In fact, Ceres makes up 25% of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
    — Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • In 2019, the farm belt felt about as hospitable as the asteroid belt.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Gardening in orbit seems to be a mood enhancer and could lead to asteroid belt borscht.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Out of all the planets, Jupiter has the greatest impact on the asteroid belt.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This fairly small space rock is in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Probes would not have the power to broadcast these data all the way back to Earth from the asteroid belt.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Moreover, the Voyagers would have to travel through the asteroid belt along the way.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • The world's first space sports car is cruising toward the asteroid belt, well beyond Mars.
    — Marcia Dunn, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Lavas of water and methane ice occur in the asteroid belt and on the moons of the outer planets.
    — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The planets on the other side of the asteroid belt are referred to as the outer planets.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
  • Pallas makes up a whopping 7 percent of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The Psyche probe will need nearly six years to reach its target in the outer asteroid belt.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is responsible for one-third of the belt’s entire mass.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2022
  • This is similar to the density of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The asteroid belt is a ring of debris that exists between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Most are far away, orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Most reside in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The asteroid belt is a ring of space debris that orbits around the sun and between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Some of those chunks of rocks later ended up on Venus, Earth, and the inner asteroid belt.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This comet is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Zhenbo Wang, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As a result, the asteroid belt may be on course to completely disappear.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And that process might not have happened without Jupiter looming just outside the asteroid belt.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 17 June 2026

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