Total mass3.2 sextillion kg
3.2 septillionPaperclip weights
15.7 quadrillionStatue of Liberty weights
267 sextillionStrawberry weights
About 4% of the Moon's mass
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The Asteroid Belt
Less dramatic than Star Wars suggests — mostly empty space/Deep Space
The asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, spanning a width of about 150 million km (1 AU). Despite what movies show, the average distance between asteroids is about 1 million km, so spacecraft pass through without incident. The total mass of the entire belt is only about 4% of the Moon's mass, with the dwarf planet Ceres accounting for about a third of that. If you gathered all the asteroids together, they would form an object smaller than the Moon.
Measurements
Radial width150 billion m
1.7 trillionCrayons
6.3 thousandthsVoyager 1 distances
1.3 trillionCandy bar lengths
About 1 AU or 150 million km
Inner edge distance from Sun330 billion m
66 billionBeaver dam lengths
8.2 millionthsProxima Centauri trips
1.6 trillionDinner forks
About 2.2 AU from the Sun
Outer edge distance from Sun480 billion m
6.4 quadrillionHuman hair widths
480 trillionthsMilky Way diameters
About 3.2 AU from the Sun
Average spacing between asteroids1 billion m
55.6 billionRing diameters
1.8 quintillionSalt crystals
23,699Marathon routes
About 1 million km apart; very empty
Average orbital speed18,000 m/s
6 millionHawaiian lava flows
8,182Olympic swimmers
About 18 km/s