main asteroid belt en · PROPN
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Synonym of main belt.
If the asteroid first has an interaction with the terrestrial planets, it is possible that its orbit can be altered in a way to pull it out of the main asteroid belt and reside almost entirely within the inner solar system.
2015, Patrick Michel, Francesca E. DeMeo, William F. Bottke, Asteroids IV, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 19: