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Recent Examples on the Web Moreover, the Voyagers would have to travel through the asteroid belt along the way. — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022 Objects in the asteroid belt and meteors don’t match it either—and nor does interstellar dust in our arm of the Milky Way galaxy. — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 May 2022 Robertlawrence 92892, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, was officially dedicated to Lawrence. — Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2022 Ceres is a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022 The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022 The image in the social media post was taken in 2018 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which traveled to both Ceres and Vesta – another object in the asteroid belt. — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022 The space agency first tested electric propulsion technology in its Deep Space 1 mission, which launched in 1998, and later in the Dawn mission in 2007 that visited Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022 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 See More

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“Asteroid belt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asteroid%20belt. Accessed 27 Jun. 2022.

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