main-belt asteroid

C15360
concept

A main-belt asteroid is a small rocky or metallic body that orbits the Sun primarily between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
main-belt asteroid canonical 55
S-type asteroid 4
main-belt object 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: main-belt asteroid
Generated description
A main-belt asteroid is a small rocky or metallic body that orbits the Sun primarily between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.

Instances (58)

Instance Via concept surface
asteroid 1274 Delportia
surface form: 1274 Delportia
asteroid 1939 Quetta
surface form: 1939 Quetta
asteroid 1940 Whipple
surface form: 1940 Whipple
asteroid 1945 Wesselink
surface form: 1945 Wesselink
asteroid 1946 Walraven
surface form: 1946 Walraven
asteroid 1862 Apollo
surface form: 1862 Apollo
S-type asteroid
asteroid 1501 Baade
surface form: 1501 Baade
asteroid 703 Duse
surface form: 703 Duse