Those asteroids/minor planets that make up the asteroid belt, will they form into something?

Like clump together and form into planet(s) or some other body?Those asteroids/minor planets that make up the asteroid belt, will they form into something?
Asteroids within the Asteroid Belt are presumed to be the remnants of matter that did not clump during the formation of the solar system. Even if the materials did collide, the gravity from Jupiter pulled them apart from each other. Composed of rock, dust, and metal, the early asteroids were formed when the heavy metal within them sunk to the center of the rock, forming a metal core. Over time, the lighter rocks formed layers around the core. The rock would then cool steadily, eventually becoming a solid.





The same mechanism probably also happens with another ';Asteroid Belt'; just outside the orbit of Neptune, the ';Kuiper Belt';. Neptune's gravity may have disabled the possibility of large object in the Kuiper Belt to clump into a planet. That's why Pluto (which is not a planet anymore) is also surrounded by millions of tiny objects, much like Ceres in the asteroid belt.Those asteroids/minor planets that make up the asteroid belt, will they form into something?
They'd been there, for who-knows-how-long. And if something has to happen, it could have happened already.





It was generally the view of people that the planet Jupiter, due to its massiveness has something to do with these objects' not getting into a union of their own. Poor Jupe who has to get the blame for the separation! I beg to differ from that view.





There is another group of scattered fragments that litter the space just about the orbit of Neptune and extends way out to extra-solar space, beyond the orbit of Pluto. So, Pluto or Neptune gets the blame for their not forming into a planetoid or something? I think we have to reconsider these views.





Planets may influence another object in orbit by making perturbations on each other's orbital path. Another influence may be manifested by a bigger object on a smaller one by ';capturing'; the smaller object and making it its satellite. This might have been the case with our moon. And if the masses are identical, they would both orbit each other as do ';binary stars.'; And the extreme scenario would be such when the smaller object falls into the bigger object.





Yet, none of these has happened to the asteroids in the Asteroid belt. And the assumption that they were remnants of a disintegrated planet, is very highly probable. For each of them are still spinning on an axis, as the other planets do. And they have still their own definite orbit, wherein they might have orbitted once upon a time while still in planetary oneness.
No, because Jupiter's massive gravitational field controls (or at least influences) the asteroid belt objects.


Its hard to explain in this forum, but Jupiter keeps the asteroids from clumping together in one area.





In fact, it is theorized that the asteroid belt would have formed a planet (though a small one, since the total mass of the asteroid belt is less than the moon) if Jupiter hadn't been so close.