How to Use asteroid belt in a Sentence

asteroid belt

noun

• The rock resides in the asteroid belt and is one of the largest known to man.
  — Fox News, 27 June 2018
• In fact, Ceres makes up 25% of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
  — Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 22 June 2024
• Ceres is the largest rock in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Which brings us to Ceres, a dwarf planet that is the largest body in the asteroid belt.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
• In 2019, the farm belt felt about as hospitable as the asteroid belt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• Who wouldn’t want a piece of the asteroid belt for Christmas?
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• Try hunting down the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest rock in the main asteroid belt.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 May 2019
• Both are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Marcia Dunn, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• About 20 percent of the dust likely came from the main asteroid belt.
  — Sarah Derouin, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2021
• Moreover, the Voyagers would have to travel through the asteroid belt along the way.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• Probes would not have the power to broadcast these data all the way back to Earth from the asteroid belt.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• The asteroid belt is a ring of space debris that orbits around the sun and between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Fox News, 27 June 2018
• The next spacecraft the Emirates plans to build is a mission to the asteroid belt, launching in 2028.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• This is similar to the density of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2019
• The spacecraft must pass through the main asteroid belt every time as well.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• The planets on the other side of the asteroid belt are referred to as the outer planets.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 12 Mar. 2018
• This fairly small space rock is in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• How could this process result in bodies the size of those in the asteroid belt, let alone whole planets?
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
• Most are far away, orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Lavas of water and methane ice occur in the asteroid belt and on the moons of the outer planets.
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• July will mark the end of Dawn's four-year journey to the asteroid belt which cuts between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
  — Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2011
• Between the sun, the asteroid belt, and the planets and their rings and moons lies a sprinkling of smaller rocks, some of which cross paths with Earth.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2022
• Crouched in the rocky confines of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, an icy sphere the size of Texas has been hiding a secret.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
• The main asteroid belt is in close alignment with the ecliptic plane, or the same plane that includes Earth’s orbit around the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
• The asteroid belt is a ring of debris that exists between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2021
• Some of those chunks of rocks later ended up on Venus, Earth, and the inner asteroid belt.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
• The largest object in the asteroid belt and smallest of the dwarf planets, Ceres, was discovered in 1801.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2019
• Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was first spotted by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.
  — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2020
• Pallas is the third largest asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• There's a story that goes way back to some of our Lakota astrology stories about the asteroid belt that surrounds and protects our Mother Earth.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024