asteroid belt

collocation in English

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asteroid
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæs.tər.ɔɪd/us
/ˈæs.tə.rɔɪd/
one of many large rocks that circle ...
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belt
noun
uk
/belt/us
/belt/
a strip of leather or material worn around the waist to support clothes or ...
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Theasteroidbeltis represented visually by clouds of space debris - percussive sounds in the music.
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The jumps take place in an apparently chaotic fashion and lead to random walks across theasteroidbelt.
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The zone near the middle of the mainasteroidbeltat y2.5-3.5 au is one of enhanced dynamical stability, not of instability.
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Another uncertainty is to what extent the abundant icy-rocky bodies that formed in the cooler conditions beyond the outer edge of theasteroidbeltmixed inwards.
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Three main groups of objects are important in this context : low-albedo asteroids, which populate mainly the outer part of theasteroidbelt, comets and planetary satellites with low-albedo surface features.
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The lost asteroid was rediscovered as and determined to be a small 1 km asteroid in theasteroidbelt.
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The excitation and depletion of theasteroidbeltmust have occurred during the planetary formation era.
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The authors considered the orbital structure of theasteroidbeltin the third paper.
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Once there, they are relatively rapidly ejected from theasteroidbelt.
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The story depicts theasteroidbeltas being much denser than it actually is.
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But improving the model of theasteroidbeltis of great concern to those requiring or attempting to provide the highest-accuracy ephemerides.
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This high albedo explains its relatively high apparent magnitude for a small object not near the inner edge of theasteroidbelt.
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It is one of the last asteroids that are above roughly 100 km in diameter discovered orbiting in the outerasteroidbelt.
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However, ourasteroidbeltis far less dense and several real spacecraft have passed through it without harm.
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Ingress and egress is only permitted to authorised spacecraft through a narrow channel that can be opened in theasteroidbelt.
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Now they're headed for anasteroidbeltand if they survive that, a collision course with the sun.
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Like manyasteroidbeltbodies, it has an orbit of about 5,5 years.
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It is approximately 270310 km in diameter and comprises an estimated 1.5% of the total mass of theasteroidbelt.
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If the eccentricity was actually this high, the planet would pass through theasteroidbeltand clear it out within about ten thousand years.
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Theasteroidbeltis very sparsely populated; spacecraft routinely pass through without incident.
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