Learn what a resonator does, and why you may or may not need one for your car or truck. A resonator is an important part of your exhaust system. Learn what a resonator does, and why you may or may not need one for your car or truck. A resonator is an important part of your exhaust system.
The average distance between asteroids in the main belt is about 600,000 miles. Ceres, the largest and most massive, is 590 miles wide. It contains almost one-third of the total mass of all the asteroids.
For reference, our own asteroid belt lies at about 3 astronomical units from the sun, and Uranus is roughly 19 astronomical units away. One of the two possible planets previously identified around Epsilon Eridani, called Epsilon Eridani b, was discovered in 2000. The planet is thought to orbit at an average distance of 3.4 astronomical units from the star -- just outside the innermost asteroid belt identified by Spitzer. This is the first time that an asteroid belt and a planet beyond our solar system have been found in a similar arrangement as our asteroid belt and Jupiter. Some researchers had reported that Epsilon Eridani b orbits in an exaggerated ellipse ranging between 1 and 5 astronomical units, but this means the planet would cross, and quickly disrupt, the newfound asteroid belt.