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Not even plants or animals should go thought that.
Originally posted by theability
reply to post by fixer1967
Not even plants or animals should go thought that.
I agree wholeheartedly, that would be a major bummer. But if you had to pick, front row seats would be quite the ride.
What suprises me is that so far, people seem to pick the destroyed planet as the reason for the formation.
Cool, I wasn't expecting this...
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
That that belt does not have enough mass to form a planet. Ok
But how on Earth did they all get there in a perfect orbit on the place where if you think about it... There should be a planet ???
Could it be that the gravitational force from Jupiter prevented a planet to form ?
The proximity to Jupiter makes these resonances strong enough that they "stir" the asteroid orbits and prevent them from ever coming together.
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
It was not a planet. Relax.
The entire mass of the asteroid belt is so small it could not have been a planet. That's what they told me anyway.
Nice question