I'm tempted to make a Youtube/Google account just to answer the question about it banging into loads of asteroids and knocking them into Earth, but not tempted enough to actually do it. Star Wars et alia have a lot to answer for when it comes to creating most people's impression of an asteroid belt. They're almost completely empty - the chance of hitting anything while passing through our asteroid belt is miniscule. You could pick an asteroid at random, stand on it and almost certainly not even be able to see another asteroid.
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