Comparison of the Oort cloud, Kuiper Belt and the Main Asteroid Belt.
The asteroids of the inner Solar System and Jupiter: The main asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.
Sun Jupiter trojans Orbits of planets
Asteroid belt Hilda asteroids (Hildas) Near-Earth objects (selection)
Known objects in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. (Scale in AU; epoch as of January 2015.)
Sun Jupiter trojans Giant planets:
J
S
U
N
Centaurs
Neptune trojans Resonant Kuiper belt Classical Kuiper belt Scattered disc
Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space.[1][2] The Solar System belts' size and placement are mostly a result of the Solar System having four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune far from the sun. The giant planets must be in the correct place, not too close or too far from the sun for a system to have Solar System belts.[3][4][5]
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