The MPC is hard-pressed to keep up with the tide of incoming data, especially with a volume of main-belt asteroid observations 100 times as great as that for NEOs.

MPC必须及时处理不断涌入的资料，尤其是来自主小行星带的小行星，观测资料量为近地物体的100倍以上。

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Moving on through the asteroid belt we enter the realms of the gas giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, all of which dwarf the Earth.

穿过小行星带继续前进，我们进入了气体巨行星区域：木星、土星、天王星、海王星，所有这些都使地球看起来像个侏儒。

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Paradoxically, while the temperatures required for liquid water exist only in the inner solar system, the key building blocks of life, including water itself, occur primarily beyond the asteroid belt.

矛盾的是，虽然液态水所需的温度只存在于太阳系内部，但生命的关键组成部分，包括水本身，却主要存在于小行星带之外。

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"We will use the tremendous capabilities of this ion propulsion system to climb out of orbit around Vesta, travel for almost another three years through the asteroid belt to dwarf planet Ceres and then go into orbit around Ceres and undertake the same kind of measurements there that we'll be doing at Vesta.

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The inner main-belt asteroid 5806 Archieroy was named after Professor Roy shortly after its discovery in 1986.

BBC: Academic and writer Archie E Roy dies aged 88

It will linger at Vesta, the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, until next summer, when it is scheduled to depart for a larger asteroid called Ceres.

WSJ: Asteroid Vesta Gets a Close Study

Early on, Moskovitz says the entire solar system probably resembled one giant asteroid belt.

FORBES: Main Asteroid Belt No Remnant Of Exploded Planet