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Our Solar System's Asteroid Belt Is Slowly Disappearing
The asteroid belt loses about 0.0088% of its mass each year due to collisions and gravitational forces, with some fragments entering Earth's orbit as meteors.
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Asteroid Belt Slowly Losing Material, Study Reveals
A new study has revealed that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually losing material over time, highlighting the dynamic nature of our Solar System. Once expected to form a planet during the Solar System’s birth 4.6 billion years ago, the belt never coalesced due to the gravitational influence of Jupiter. Instead of allowing rocky material to merge, Jupiter’s strong pull caused frequent collisions, breaking objects apart before …
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