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The mass of the entire asteroid belt is only about 0.05% of the Earth's, and the metallic (M-type) ones only 10% of that, so not much effect.

Interestingly, Ceres alone is 1/3 of the total mass, and the big four make up half.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt#Characteristics



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