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(Taken from site) Here is a top-down view of the inner Solar System showing the location of the planets Mercury through Jupiter, known comets (white symbols), and the locations of all 150,000+ numbered asteroids on April 1, 2007:

The same picture, from a side shot:

Some facts about Asteroids in our Solar System:
 * Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter
 * Some asteroids fall into Jupiter's orbit, and some into Earth's orbit.
 * The asteroids in Earth's orbit are cleverly named "Near-Earth objects," and are the ones that scientists watch the closest

DON'T BE FOOLED!!!!!
Textbooks and websites portray asteroids as being so close together that you could leap from asteroid to asteroid if you wanted! However, this is untrue. The distance between individual numbered asteroids is about a million miles, so if you were in fact standing on an asteroid in the middle of space, you would be lucky to see even one other asteroid floating around!