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f the asteroid belt is indeed a planet that didn’t get the chance to form properly, you could be mistaken for thinking that it wouldn’t have made much of a planet in the first place. The asteroid belt stretches from just past Mars beyond the orbit of Jupiter, and although it consists of millions of asteroids, many of those are tiny, dust-like particles. The belt’s overall mass is just four per cent that of