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The Question
(Submitted April 25, 1997)
I want a picture of the asteroid belt!
The Answer
The individual asteroids are small and do not reflect a lot of sunlight,
so it is not possible to view them all at once... you have to point a telescope
at one at a time. Also, the NASA satellite Galileo took some nice pictures of
asteroids, see:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951020.html and
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950630.html
The latter picture shows an asteroid that has its own little moon.
More pictures and information on asteroids is available at:
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/asteroids.html
Andy Ptak
for the Ask an Astrophysicist Team
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