| Instead, that debris continued to orbit the Sun, most of it between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a region known as the asteroid belt. |
| What happens when we cross the asteroid belt area, when we go out toward Jupiter? |
| This explains the composition of much of the asteroid belt as well as the inner planets. |
| That is how fragments of the asteroid belt can end up crashing into Earth as meteorites. |
| I accessed the waypoint system, and put in the central coordinates for the asteroid belt. |
| Rosetta will leave the benign environment of near-Earth space to the dark, frigid regions beyond the asteroid belt. |
