What name is given to the rocks that orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter?
Orbit of Mars of the asteroid belt is of great concern to those requiring or attempting to provide the highest-accuracy ephemerides. No more than five significant figures are presented in the following table of Mars's orbital elements. To this level of precision, the numbers match very well the VSOP87 elements and calculations derived from them, as well as Standish's (of JPL) 250-year best fit, and calculations using the actual positions of Mars over time. Orbit of Mars Mars has an orbit with a semimajor axis of 1.524 astronomical units (228 million kilometers), and an eccentricity of 0.0934. The planet orbits the Sun in
The Sands of Mars one of the most believable trips to Mars." The book has given an inspiration for the title of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's last and unfinished album, "First Rays of the New Rising Sun". The album also contains an unfinished song "New Rising Sun" in which "Jupiter Sun" is mentioned. It was also published later as part of "The Space Trilogy", an omnibus of three of Clarke's earlier works which also includes "Islands in the Sky" and "Earthlight". The transformation of Phobos into a second sun has similarities to what is done to Jupiter in Clarke's novel "". In that case, alien