Asteroid belt
| This article is about the asteroid belt in the Solar System. For another notable asteroid belt, see Chaar asteroid belt. |
The asteroid belt is a field of rock and debris in the Solar System that floats in the orbital path between Mars and Jupiter.
Known asteroids include:
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Cybertron enters the Solar System and is faced with destruction as it approaches the astroid belt. Aboard a huge spacecraft dubbed the Ark, Optimus Prime leads a team of Autobots on a mission to clear a path through the asteroids. The Transformers
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Headmasters cartoon
While travelling back to Earth, Scorponok made a pit stop at Pallas. The pursuing Autobots made a similar stop at Ceres. The two forces battled on Pallas, but Sixshot arranged for a personal duel with Chromedome on Juno; the duel ceased when Daniel Witwicky got between the two of them and Scorponok caused Juno to explode after taking off for Earth. Duel on the Asteroid
Victory cartoon
Deathsaurus's Decepticons had set the Thunder Arrow on an asteroid and set up a factory. With devices planted on the asteroid, they pulled in spaceships to use their crew as slaves and the ships for smelting to produce the energy alloy. Ship disappearances had become so frequent that the region was called the "Devil's Space Triangle". Star Saber, realizing that it was a Decepticon plot, disguised himself as a human spaceship to be abducted. Once on the asteroid, Star Saber destroyed the devices and drove off the Decepticons. A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid
Aligned continuity family
Prime cartoon
The Decepticon space bridge—that was destroyed during Megatron's attempts to raise Cybertron—lay outside the asteroid belt. Masters & Students
Tales of the Beast Hunters
Bumblebee found a lead pointing to a derelict starship in the asteroid belt. Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 1 He and Wheeljack located it, but were followed there by Megatron and Predaking. Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 4 Optimus Prime soon joined in the battle by GroundBridging there Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 5 and as the ship was destroyed by Lazerback's explosives, the Autobots managed to escape with some of the weapons. Megatron was not so lucky, and appeared to perish. Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 6
Notes
- Veteran Transformers voice actor George Takei has an asteroid named after him.
Foreign names
- English: Meteorite Zone (Omni Productions dub)
