The Asteroid Belt is believed to be leftovers from the formation of the universe and this term seem to be coined in an English translation made by E.C. Otté in 1850 (Alexander, 1850). At first it was believe to be a planet that was destroyed into a bunch of rocky pieces, but scientists now believes that it is material that could not form into a planet due to gravitational pull from Jupiter and Mars, as well as, the other planets. If you were to zigzag through this family of asteroids you would see over 100 million miles of rock with some as small as six feet and others the size of cities. Even though there are approximately over billions of pieces of rock yet if they were all combined they would make an object smaller than the Earth’s moon. In movies the asteroid belt is pictured as a crowded bunch asteroid which you have to make some racetrack maneuvers to avoid but this could be further from the truth. The average distance between asteroids is a million miles. One peculiar object in the asteroid belt is the biggest asteroid in our solar system. It is 600 mile wide and makes up about one-fourth of the entire mass of the asteroid belt. Its name is Ceres and recently has been upgraded to the status of dwarf planet as its now downgraded partner Pluto. Scientist still do not know the origin of the Asteroid Belt which still keeps it at number four on this list.