Needle: 6/4.0mm
Yarn: 1 skein of Pecos River from Fistful of Fiber

Stitch guide
K- Knit
P- Purl
YO- yarn over
K2tog- Knit 2 stitches together
C2FK2K- cable 2 front, knit 2, knit from cable needle
C2FK2P- cable 2 front, knit 2, purl from cable needle
C2BP2K- cable 2 back, purl 2, knit from cable needle

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous asteroids or minor planets. About half the mass of the belt is contained in the four largest asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. The total mass of the asteroid belt is approximately 4% that of the Moon, or 22% that of Pluto, and roughly twice that of Pluto’s moon Charon (whose diameter is 745.6 miles).
Ceres, the asteroid belt’s only dwarf planet, is about 590 miles in diameter, whereas Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea have mean diameters of less than 372.8 miles. The remaining bodies range down to the size of a dust particle. The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that numerous unmanned spacecraft have traversed it without incident. Nonetheless, collisions between large asteroids do occur, and these can form an asteroid family whose members have similar orbital characteristics and compositions. Individual asteroids within the asteroid belt are categorized by their spectra, with most falling into three basic groups: carbonaceous (C-type), silicate (S-type), and metal-rich (M-type).