Becomes slightly more intuitive when you remember there's an asteroid belt in the middle that maybe would've grabbed up enough stuff to form into a planet if Jupiter wasn't messing with it the whole time.
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I was curious so I looked, Wikipedia says the asteroid belt currently contains only about 3% the mass of the moon. I definitely thought it would be more!
Asteroid belts are really sparse. Those scifi space fights in asteroid fields with constant bobbing and weaving could probably only happen within a few years of a planet being blown up. Anything that dense would be condensed into larger bodies very quickly. Turns out space is a whole lot of nothing
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