People On Reddit Share The “Pointless Facts” They Know

17. The Asteroid Belt

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“If you took all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and mashed them together into a single big object, it would only amount to 4% the mass of Earth’s Moon. The largest asteroid, Ceres, accounts for about 1/3 of the total mass of the asteroid belt.” – u/itsamamaluigi

Thanks to Reddit user itsamamaluigi, all the movie scenes with interstellar fights between asteroids are so ruined!

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