The Asteroid Belt Repository

Asteroid Belts are rather common, and most may not want to make articles about them. However, please place a little section about them here.
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== Asteroid Belt Name (Star Name) ==
info n' stuff
=== Optional Other Categories (History of Observation, Composition, etc.) ===
=== Notable Members (yes use those words or some variation) ===
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== Kellelai Belt (Verda A System) ==
The Kellelai Belt is the innermost asteroid belt in the Verda System. It has many large asteroids and is littered with smaller ones that have been carved out to place rotating habitats in them.
=== History of Observation ===
The Kellelai Belt's largest members (Cerea, Vas, and Palladia) were first observed by Keyla Kellelai (wow, she has a lot of accomplishments!), who kickstarted a flurry of other asteroid discoveries. The current number exceeds a million. Later, at the dawn of the space age, interest was expressed to send probes to them. The first probe to visit Cerea, Vas, and Hyga was the Sunrise Probe, carrying a revolutionary ion propulsion system.
Later, most asteroids were colonized, by either colonizing their surfaces (for the larger ones), or carving them out to make rotating habitats inside them, for the smaller ones.
=== Notable Members ===
==== Largest Members ====
* (Verda A) 1 Cerea (no longer a member (it's literally an interstellar spaceship now))
* (Verda A) 2 Vas 
* (Verda A) 3 Palladia
* (Verda A) 4 Hyga
* (Verda A) 5 Floris
==== Members with Wonkiest Orbits ====
* (Verda A) 3 Palladia (high inclination)
* (Verda A) 5 Floris (retrograde)
* (Verda A) 32 Harmony (high eccentricity and inclination)
* (Verda A) 129 Seesharp (Orbit that keeps switching between prograde and retrograde via interactions from Glau)
* (Verda A) 3271 Merna (Cometlike orbit)
== Kipper Belt (Verda A) ==
The Kipper Belt is a ice asteroid belt, which is unusually rich in deuterium. It has many dwarf planets and is littered with asteroids and comets, most of which have been colonized.
=== Notable Members ===
Sorry, I don't have any names presently.
== Lanaro Belt (Quantis) ==
The Lanaro Belt is the largest asteroid belt in the Quantis System, in between the planets of Aranji and Molgi. 1.138 million objects are known to be in it, and around 100000 more objects are theorised to exist thanks to math and big computers with nVidia RTX 6090 Ti (they are heavily guarded so scalpers can't steal them lol get bamboozled scalpers). The largest objects are the six dwarf planets in the belt, all of which have been colonized, and one of them, 1 Yualofs, has been terraformed.
=== History Of Observation ===
The two first objects to be discovered in the Lanaro Belt were discovered by the Varbudian Martiq Lart. These first two were the dwarf planets 1 Yualofs, 2 Jifta and its largest moon, Dwerta, which was discovered a few Varbudian years after 2 Jifta was discovered. Yualofs, Jifta and Dwerta were discovered during the 12th Varbudian century and the 13th Varbudian century. A few Varbudian centuries later, in the 17th Varbudian century, the Janfri probe was launched to take samples of the asteroid 56 Yangalis and bring them back. It was a successful mission. And that probe, Janfri, meaning "New Light" in Varbudian, was the fourth to visit the Lanaro Belt. Since then, 2724 spacecraft have ventured either through or into the belt.
883327 of the 1.138 million known objects in the Lanaro Belt have been colonized and Yualofs has been terraformed, and there are plans to terraform Jifta in the near future. The asteroids were colonized the same way as the ones in the Verda system, which if you forgot how exactly, read this from the Kellelai belt:
Later, most asteroids were colonized, by either colonizing their surfaces (for the larger ones), or carving them out to make rotating habitats inside them, for the smaller ones.
=== Composition ===
157839 known iron asteroids, 233245 known water ice asteroids and 22836 known carbonaceous asteroids. Rest are silicate.
=== Notable Members ===
* 1 Yualofs (dwarf planet)
** Radius: 1134 km
** Moons: 2
* 2 Jifta (dwarf planet)
** Radius: 1209 km
** Moons: 3
* 3 Onaraich (dwarf planet)
** Radius: 970 km
** Moons: 2
* 4 Yandup and 5 Payyar (binary dwarf planet)
** Radius: 894 km
** Moons: 6 total
* 6 Ayos (dwarf planet)
** Radius: 687 km
** Moons: 1
* 7 Zanwags (largest asteroid by radius)
** Radius 274 km
** Moons: 0
* 8 Bemlos (largest asteroid by mass)
** Radius: 248 km
** Moons: 0
* Dwerta (moon)
** Radius: 133 km
== Alagas Belt / Alagas Disc (Quantis) ==
The Alagas Belt or Alagas Disc is a somewhat sparse region of material beyond the planet Hensas, which is the furthest planet from Quantis. Because it is comprised of mainly dwarf planets, comets and other icy objects, it is basically Quantis' Kuiper Belt and/or scattered disc. It has around 650000 objects, which are mostly periodic comets and asteroids. The largest objects in this region include the dwarf planets Pyrek, Zanzibir, Tomit and Pexa, all of which are colonised.
=== History Of Observation ===
The first object to be discovered in the Alagas Belt was Pyrek, followed by Tomit, Zanzibir and Gaju, and they were observed by Ulak Selesi when she was using the QuaPlaSO (Quantis Planets and Satellites Observatory) radio telescope to confirm the existence of a then unconfirmed minor moon of Hensas, and she stumbled upon Pyrek. After realising that it wasn't a satellite of Hensas, and instead a separate object with an orbit beyond Hensas' orbit, she wondered if it was part of a region with a high density of dwarf planets and other small objects, something like a far out and colder version of the Lanaro Belt. So she went over to the brand new POSRO (Powerful Outer System Research Observatory) super-powerful radio telescope to try and discover more objects in the area of Pyrek, and sure enough, she found Tomit, then Zanzibir, then Gaju, and then the moons of Tomit and Zanzibir.
The big astronomy companies saw her papers on the dwarf planets that the discoveredand launched several projects to discover more about this region. These projects included OQuaSDiP (Outer Quantis System Discovery Project), and, following the realisation that several periodic comets originated from this area, they constructed the THeO telescope (Trans-Hensas Observatory) to discover more periodic comets and other objects in the area beyond Hensas. After the discovery of several hundred objects in this region, astronomers were able to figure out that it was indeed a belt, and were able to give it an official name.
Today, the belt is almost entirely colonised, however no objects have been terraformed, although there are some plans to terraform Pyrek and Zanzibir in the near future.
== Physquik Belt (Crouge) ==
The Physquik belt is the only remaining asteroid and comet belt around Crouge, and also acts as its Oort cloud. It is more sphere-shaped than most other asteroid belts. It has 159214 silicate asteroids, 33114 iron asteroids, 66281 water ice asteroids and 8933 carbonaceous asteroids, at last count.
=== History ===
The Physquik belt was first observed 48 years ago. It was seen as just a cloud orbiting Crouge, which was a bit weird at the time. Now we know what it is, because we've zoomed in to look at the individual asteroids and comets, and we've picked out the largest ones.
=== Notable members ===
==== Largest bodies ====
# Porphid: 636 km radius, now classified as a dwarf planet. S-type
# Tyriy: 421 km radius, also classified as a dwarf planet. F-Type
# Ecarnot: 314 km radius, classified as a dwarf planet. S-Type
# Iraw: 261 km radius, classified as a dwarf planet. S-Type
# Rithersax: 224 km radius, also a dwarf planet. C-Type
# Coris: 179 km radius, largest comet/asteroid. I-Type
==== Smallest bodies ====
# PBOSM-2359: 3.2 mm radius, S-Type
# PBOIM-4402: 4.66 mm radius, I-Type
# PBOSM-1260: 5.01 mm radius, S-Type
==== Most eccentric orbits ====
# Tuirv: 33.4 km radius, e = 0.998932, SMA = 5.43592 AU, S-Type
# PBOSE-224: 4.2 km radius, e = 0.995259, SMA = 14.90921 AU, S-Type
# PBOFE-25: 11.3 km radius, e = 0.994434, SMA = 1.97548 AU, F-Type
==== Most inclined orbits ====
# PBOSR-5939 - 179.9642 degrees, S-Type
# Ariphaf - 179.8903 degrees, C-Type
# Ryarqe - 179.4543 degrees, C-Type
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