What two planets is the asteroid belt found between?
saturn and uranus
mars and venus
earth and venus
mars and jupiter
Hundreds of thousands of asteroids have been found in our solar system. They are still being discovered at a rate of about 5,000 new asteroids per month! The majority are located in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This region is called the asteroid belt , as shown in Figure below . There are many thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt. Still, their total mass adds up to only about 4 percent of Earth’s Moon.