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is a main-belt asteroid. The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar
System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and
Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called
asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt is also termed the main
asteroid belt or main belt because there are other asteroids in the
Solar System such as near-Earth asteroids and trojan asteroids. Maybe
half the mass of the belt is contained in the four largest asteroids: 1
Ceres, 4 Vesta, 2 Pallas, and 10 Hygiea. These have mean diameters of
more than 400 km, while Ceres, the asteroid belt's only identified dwarf
planet, is about 950 km in diameter.
