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=__Asteroid Belts __=

Asteroids are objects left over from the formation of the solar system. The **__Main Asteroid Belt__** in our galaxy is located between Mars and Jupiter about 2.3-3.3 __**A.U.(astronomical units)**__ from the sun.The second most known asteroid belt is the Kuiper belt, which is located out past Neptunes orbit. The largest known asteroid is __**Ceres**__. Some asteroids found in a asteroid belt can be renamed to be dwarf planets if they show **__Hydrostatic Equilibrium__**.

__**Main Asteroid Belt**__

It is estimated that the total mass of the Main Asteroid Belt may total less than 1/1000th of the mass of Earth. The Main Asteroid Belt is only a small fragment of the material that once resided in the region between Mars and Jupiter, but may have contain two to ten of that of earths mass at once.


 * __Kuiper belt__**

The Kuiper belt is a region in space along the ecliptic outside the orbit of neptune.It contains countless comets and "supercomets" or planetesimals. The Kuiper belt contains contains lumps of icy material with organic compounds. The Kuiper belt contains asteroids about the size of pluto and some even larger. Some of the larger asteroids are to be considered **__Dwarf Planets__**

I.** Eris is the largest Dwarf Planet
 * __Quick Facts__
 * II.** Pluto is the 2nd largest Dwarf Planet
 * III.**Charon is the 3rd largest Dwarf Planet
 * IV.**Cerus is the 4th largest Dwarf Planet
 * V.** Dysnomia is the 5th largest Dwarf Planet