A major belt of asteroids is located between mars and jupiter. what is the approximate average distance between the sun and this major asteroid belt?
2007-04-29 07:24:22 · 5 answers · asked by barcaroni2009 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Mars is 1.52 AU from the Sun
Jupiter is 5.2 AU from the Sun
5.2 - 1.52 leaves a distance spread of 3.68 where this belt may exist between the Planet. Given the mean of 1.84 AU between the Planets + 1.52 AU (distance to Mars) = 3.36 AU from the Sun.
Or 312.5 million miles
(1 AU = 93 million miles)
2007-04-29 08:38:39 · answer #1 · answered by Stratman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jupiter is about 480 million miles from the Sun and Mars is about 140 million miles from the Sun. So the asteroid belt is in between. Since there are many asteroids in different orbits, it isn't at one distance, it is smeared over many distances. But some kind of average could be computed I guess. The source makes it look like about 260 million miles on average.
2007-04-29 07:53:15 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth is at 1 a.u. 1 a.u.= 93,000,000 miles. The asteroid belt is at 2.3 a.u. 213,900,000 miles.
2007-04-29 10:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by paulbritmolly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
400,000,000 km, or 248 million miles.
I determined this using the median (close to the average) from the short table below.
2007-04-29 08:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't see how this question is hard - it's not like working out a math problem.
Why not look it up. You have the internet. Use it.
2007-04-29 08:48:20 · answer #5 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋