The asteroids that are towards Jupiter (farthest from the sun) are about 20% water. Usually they explode on impact, but a few asteroids fell into a frozen lake and were found to contain their own water. This is one theory behind why our planet has water after being a giant round volcanoe for so long. After Earth cooled enough, the asteroids (20% water) hit earth and the water and material ended up on the surface.

Maybe our crust and water is the missing material from the belt, and why when combined it would not make a very large planet. (some material may be on mars or jupiter or their moons.. including water.)

Also on an interesting side note.. bacteria and tiny organisms will hibernate in zero-G. There are life forms on Earth that have been brought to life after many years. (ancient date trees, small ocean creatures,etc) Even whooly-mammoth meat was eaten by the sled dogs who found it in the glacier and the dogs were fine. Tiny forms of life could convievably have come from the asteroid belt, or at least material that formed life. So how did water, and possibly life, get into chunks of unformed planet? Especially when an early planet is molten rock.

Originally posted by mikesingh
Can a celestial body explode in this manner from the inside under natural laws of physics?

As far as I know, no, the energy needed is astronomical.

If not, is it more probable that the explosion occured due to some 'experiment', by an ancient civilization, gone awry?

I think the most probable cause is that it was hit by another celestial body bigger than it.

In this way the bigger celestial body could absorb part of the planet and only some fragments would remain.

Believe it or not this planet's name was bellona\marduk and was destroyed by a death star(moon).Search galactic federation+moon.I know this is unbelievable but after watching star wars this could really be true and with articles saying that moon could be a space ship i am starting to believe the story

Originally posted by coolheretic
Believe it or not this planet's name was bellona\marduk and was destroyed by a death star(moon).Search galactic federation+moon.I know this is unbelievable but after watching star wars this could really be true and with articles saying that moon could be a space ship i am starting to believe the story

The moon is not a space ship at all. It's made up of the light rocks of Earth's upper mantle that were knocked off by a collision with a Mars-sized bolide - we can prove this by looking at the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. It's also been battered to hell and gone.

Thats what the power need be want you to think.People are soo blinded.The moon is the only celestial object not to rotate and where therever is a solar eclipse the entire sun is
engulfed behind the moon which is to say the rare so rare that the only eg is moon.Search ats for artifical moon for more articles.

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Originally posted by coolheretic
The moon is the only celestial object not to revolve ...

No, the Moon spins on its axis in the same way as other planets and satellites.

Its always the same, some people present another (or the same) theory and say that "this is the one", but in fact they could even be saying that the Moon was made of cheese with the right density, covered with dust, that we cannot prove which theory is the right one.

Okay, so from what I've read in this thread there is or was water on what may have been the planet that is now an asteroid belt. So if there was water then there may have been an ocean. Semjase said that in the war between Mars and this other planet, they took water from an ocean and channeled it into a volcano shaft that went deep into the planet and that is what caused it to explode.

The idea that a planet could be distroyed by water going down a volcano and breaking it apart is possibly the worst theory ive ever heard. I know when hot glass of even small rocks meet water they may crack, or shatter. But Volcanoes erupt on the sea floor all the time, particularly at the mid atlantic ridge where there is a divergent boandary, molten rock simply pours out and solidifies at the surface. Water is forced into the earth constantly at convergant boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meets, all it does is decrease the pressure and allow the crust to melt more easily.

Also i dont think that an outer planet could have been solid rock, as the reason our inner planets are solid and our outer planets are gas giants is because when the solar system was young the gravitational pull of the sun and the rotation of the elements had the same effects as a centrifuge. The heavier elements move to the higher area of gravitational pull (the inside of the solar system, or the outside in a centrifuge) whilst the lighter gaseous elements move to the outside of the solar system where the pull is weakest. The exception is pluto, which was plucked from the asteroid belt into our suns gravitational pull, but this is a dwarf planet, a fraction of the size of our moon. I dont think anything much bigger could be held by the suns gravitational pull. And a dwarf planet of that size, and distance from the sun could support any kind of life.

This has gotten me interested...

Now someone piped up a theory that there may have been at least one or two post planets between Mars and Jupiter, AND Mars being a moon or connected to this planet by some means. Even though it's a theory, it's still very possible. The mostly likely reason is the unexpected gap between Mars to Jupiter than comparing to the other planets.


I don't know the maths etc.. If it's true that there was (need more evidence) a planet there whether it was iron/water/solid rock or whatever.... A lot of things can happen during the solar systems 6 billion year history (or more)
Look at the history of Mars, its very odd when compared to the other inner planets etc.. Like describe in the earlier post.


Now I'd like to ask this question. Since there is evidence that Mars had a athmosphere and magnetic field, would this be backed up if there was a planet there with Mars orbiting it somehow?

We can find out (maths expert) if we could study the solar systems turbelent history and check the dates when it most likley occured of a planet sized object exploded, and why there were massive devastations during the 65mya period, why Mars lost it's athmosphere overnight, why is mars significantly different to the other planets in terms of geology and formation etc.... why was it wetter in it's distant past, what must of happened to the planets, that changed the history forever


If mars was a moon, how would this fit into the Mars past, when it was warmer and wetter. Would planet K cause the Mars core to be active? what must have happend to Mars if Planet K exploded? the Canyons on mars? would that have anything to do with it?


Sorry for the questions and rambling, It just races out of my head, Naturally, it becomes obvious when it's read,