Q: What two planets is the asteroid belt found between?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Hundreds of thousands of asteroids have been found in our solar system. They are still being discovered at a rate of about 5,000 new asteroids per month! The majority are located in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This region is called the asteroid belt , as shown in Figure below . There are many thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt. Still, their total mass adds up to only about 4 percent of Earth’s Moon.

 Choices:

- mars and venus

- earth and venus

- saturn and uranus

- mars and jupiter


A:
mars and jupiter