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What causes asteroids and meteoroids to fall out of orbit from the Asteroid Belt?

What property of the solar system causes this to happen?

Update:

Gravity is what holds them within the belt and what causes them to fall toward larger centers of mass. I am asking what forces them from the Asteroid Belt? Gravity is a good guess but not the answer.

Update 2:

I will reveal findings before time expires. :)

Update 3:

Dump the liberals into Jupiter perturbations is a good thought and may play a part but since the asteroid belt orbits between Mars and Jupiter it does not seem that its distance between these celestial bodies play any significant role in causing them to be ejected out of the belt itself. Good point you make there. There does exist some aspect of the solar system that plays a significant role in causing asteroids and meteors to leave the asteroid belt.

Update 4:

Campbelt2002 you gave a good answer which does happen. Collisions within the asteroid belt do cause some asteroids and meteoroids to move out of the belt to plunge toward both the inner and outer solar system, mostly the inner solar system while those objects in the Kuiper Belt fall toward the outer solar system. But collisions within the belt is still not the most significant cause.

Update 5:

Oklatonola sorry if I have annoyed you but I am not deliberately trying to violate any guidelines. I just like to share knowledge with those who have similar interests while surveying the general consensus of common or not so common knowledge of my fellow astronomy enthusiasts.

Update 6:

I will reveal findings before time elapses. A clue is that what significantly perturbs celestial objects from the asteroid belt comes from the sun.

Update 7:

Campbelt2002 you are correct that not all asteroids and meteoroids fall out of the belt but certain kinds of up to a certain limited mass often fall out of the belt. Some property of the sun causes this, what is it?

Update 8:

Energyconsciousness good answer and referrence but the most significant cause is not even mentioned in your referrence. It is not the gravity of the sun, though it may play a small cause in perturbing celestial objects within the belt. Thank you for your answer. :)

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  • 9 years ago
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    The anisotropic emission of thermal photons.

    Hope that helps.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Gravitational forces from other objects in the Solar system affect the orbits of some asteroids enough that they fall toward the Sun and out of the Asteroid belt in just the same way When Jupiter or Saturn's gravitational Fields grab an asteroid and make a moon for several million years or more. Gravity is NOT the answer. Gravitational influences or forces from other solar system bodies is the right answer. My answers are usually correct,

    YA is NOT a contest for your amusement to see who can com up with correct answers the most quickly. That's a misuse of YA as a stage to annoy and harass and exploit the YA community, That's a serious violation of the Community Guidelines.

  • 9 years ago

    A Mixture of gravity from Jupiter and the sun can cause objects to be flung out of the belt. Also collisions from objects inside the belt can cause some to be ejected.

    I believe the main reason is due to the Titius Bode Law, which causes planets to be formed at certain distances from the sun, but due to Jupiter being so massive and the suns gravity, nothing much could form in the region between Mars and Jupiter. The largest object is Ceres, but the continual pull from jupiter and the sun stopped it from accreting from a collection of planetesimals into a planet. The continual tug of war and rare alignments with other planets increase the gravitational pull which can fling objects out.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    What Color Is The Asteroid Belt

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Chaos theory

    There are no exact answers to the N-body problem. The effect of gravitational fields from multiple bodies such as Jupiter, the sun and other asteroids is chaotic and can eject asteroids from stable orbits.

  • 9 years ago

    Mostly asteroids do not fall out of the belt.

    But if two asteroids pass close enough to each other their mutual gravitational interaction could fling one or both of them out of the belt. Gravitational interactions with Jupiter can do that too. Also if two asteroids collide some of the debris could be thrown out of the belt.

  • 9 years ago

    I would guess a combination of gravity, inertia and lack of speed. Gravity pulls, the inertia of the sun makes them go to it instead of the other way around and their slow speed does not give them enough energy to work against the gravitational pull of the sun. Therefore they eventually will be forced from the Ateroid belt.

    Just a guess but it sound logical to me.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    comet- an enormous chunk ice in space asteroid- a huge chunk of metal in space meteoroid- a rock in space meteor- a meteorite burning in an atmosphere meteorite- a rock from space that has fallen through the atmosphere

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Gravity.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Perturbations. Ask Otis Mathis. He knows all about perturbation.

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