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Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. 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.




Formation



The Solar System belts were formed in the formation and evolution of the Solar System. The Grand tack hypothesis is a model of the unique placement of the giant planets and the Solar System belts. Most giant planets found outside our Solar System, exoplanets, are inside the snow line, and are called Hot Jupiters. Thus in normal planetary systems giant planets form beyond snow line and then migrated towards the star. A small percent of giant planets migrate far from the star. In both types of migrations, the Solar System belts are lost in these planetary migrations. The Grand tack hypothesis explains how in the Solar System giant planets migrated in unique way to form the Solar System belts and near circular orbit of planets around the Sun. The Solar System's belts are one key parameters for a Solar System that can support complex life, as circular orbits are a parameter needed for the Habitable zone for complex life.




Solar System belts


The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). Small Solar System objects are classified by their orbits:

Main Asteroid belt (main belt), between Mars and Jupiter, in near circular orbit, 2.2 to 3.2 AU
Hungaria asteroids, small group, 1.78 to 2.00 AU
Alinda asteroids, small group, 2.5 AU in elliptical orbits
Hilda asteroid small group just inside Jupiter, 4.0 AU
Kuiper belt large belt, 43 to 64.5 AU
Scattered disc small group, 21.5 to 215 AU
Sednoid (inner Oort cloud objects) small group of four or more, high elliptical orbits, 47.8 to 80 AU
Extreme trans-Neptunian objects 150 to 250 AU
Hills cloud a large hypothetical circumstellar disc




Planets



Solar System planets and dwarf planets listed for distances comparison to belts. The Solar System planets all orbit in near circular orbits.
Planets:

Mercury 0.39 AU
Venus 0.72 AU
Earth 1 AU
Mars 1.52 AU
Jupiter 5.2 AU
Saturn 9.54 AU
Uranus 19.2 AU
Neptune 30.06 AU

Dwarf planets:
Dwarf planets, other than Ceres, are plutoids that have elliptical orbits:

Ceres, 2.8 AU in the asteroid belt
Orcus 39.4 AU, Trans-Neptunian-Kuiper belt object
Pluto 39 AU, Kuiper belt (a planet until 2006)
Haumea 43 AU, Kuiper belt
Makemake 45.8 AU, Kuiper belt
Eris 95.6 AU, Kuiper belt
Gonggong Scattered disc object, 34 to 101 AU
Quaoar Kuiper belt object, 41.9 to 45.4 AU
Sedna 76 to 506 AU




See also



Near-Earth object
Planetary migration
Late Heavy Bombardment
List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
List of Solar System objects by size
Lists of geological features of the Solar System
List of Solar System extremes
Outline of the Solar System




References






External links


Expected Science Return of Spatially-Extended In-Situ Exploration at Small Solar System Bodies

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• Sabuk radiasi Van Allen
• Neptunus
• Uranus
• Atmosfer Jupiter
• Atlas V
• Solar System belts
• Van Allen radiation belt
• Asteroid belt
• Formation and evolution of the Solar System
• Solar System
• List of Solar System objects by size
• List of Solar System objects
• Kuiper belt
• List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
• Small Solar System body