Possible long-lived asteroid belts in the inner Solar System

@article{Evans1999PossibleLA,
  title={Possible long-lived asteroid belts in the inner Solar System},
  author={N. Wyn Evans and Serge Tabachnik},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1999},
  volume={399},
  pages={41-43}
}
Recent years have seen the discovery of several objects in stable orbits in the outer Solar System; these bodies include objects in the Kuiper belt (also known as the Kuiper–Edgeworth belt) as well as the Centaurs. Moreover, another region of orbital stability has been identified between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Here we report evidence from numerical simulations of zones of orbital stability in the inner Solar System. We find that there are two possible long-lived belts of asteroids… 
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