Asteroids

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

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The Rubin Observatory found 2,104 asteroids in just a few days. It could soon find millions more.

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