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Planetesimals within the region which would become the asteroid belt were too strongly perturbed by Jupiter's gravity to form a planet. Instead they continued to orbit the Sun as before, while occasionally colliding.[26] In regions where the average velocity of the collisions was too high, the shattering of planetesimals tended to dominate over accretion,[27] preventing the formation of planet-sized bodies. Orbital resonances occurred where the orbital period of an object in the belt formed an integer fraction of the orbital period of Jupiter, perturbing the object into a different orbit; the region lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter contains many such orbital resonances. As Jupiter migrated inward following its formation, these resonances would have swept across the asteroid belt, dynamically exciting the region's population and increasing their velocities relative to each other.[
Originally posted by Human_Alien
What gives this a little more edge....over the other 1000 claims is, this dude predicted today's earthquake.
I don't see any USGS boys coming up with a formula.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Human_Alien
The mass contained in the entire asteroid belt is tiny compared to even the mass of the Moon. The asteroid belt formed just like every other object in the solar system. However, due to the large mass of Jupiter it prevented them from forming into a planet.
Originally posted by camus154
Originally posted by Human_Alien
What gives this a little more edge....over the other 1000 claims is, this dude predicted today's earthquake.
I don't see any USGS boys coming up with a formula.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, dude.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Human_Alien
Except he also has a three day buffer period built into his predictions. As I pointed out at the beginning of this thread 6.0+ earthquakes occur, on average, more frequently than one every three days. So all he's doing is simply playing the odds.
Planetesimals within the region which would become the asteroid belt were too strongly perturbed by Jupiter's gravity to form a planet. Instead they continued to orbit the Sun as before, while occasionally colliding.[26] In regions where the average velocity of the collisions was too high, the shattering of planetesimals tended to dominate over accretion,[27] preventing the formation of planet-sized bodies. Orbital resonances occurred where the orbital period of an object in the belt formed an integer fraction of the orbital period of Jupiter, perturbing the object into a different orbit; the region lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter contains many such orbital resonances. As Jupiter migrated inward following its formation, these resonances would have swept across the asteroid belt, dynamically exciting the region's population and increasing their velocities relative to each other.[28
Contrary to popular imagery, the asteroid belt is mostly empty. The asteroids are spread over such a large volume that it would be improbable to reach an asteroid without aiming carefully. Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of asteroids are currently known, and the total number ranges in the millions or more, depending on the lower size cutoff. Over 200 asteroids are known to be larger than 100 km,[40] while a survey in the infrared wavelengths shows that the asteroid belt has 700,000 to 1.7 million asteroids with a diameter of 1 km or more.[41] The apparent magnitudes of most of the known asteroids are 11–19, with the median at about 16.[42]
The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 2.8×1021 to 3.2×1021 kilograms, which is just 4% of the mass of the Moon.[2] The four largest objects, Ceres, 4 Vesta, 2 Pallas, and 10 Hygiea, account for half of the belt's total mass, with almost one-third accounted for by Ceres alone
Originally posted by Human_Alien
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Human_Alien
The mass contained in the entire asteroid belt is tiny compared to even the mass of the Moon. The asteroid belt formed just like every other object in the solar system. However, due to the large mass of Jupiter it prevented them from forming into a planet.
Would you PLEASE remove yourself from your scientist arm-chair.
Are you kidding me? So we've literally counted all pieces, put it in a computer and figured out it's smaller than the Moon?
And, the asteroid belt was intended to be just the way it is because it never, formed?
Wow! You just make it up as you go along, don't you?
Your credibility is off the chart!
Originally posted by Human_Alien
Originally posted by DaRAGE
All I hear is that he's saying a Heavy Mass object is incoming.
If a heavy mass object was incoming, we would know about it via tides... Trust me. It would cause unprecedented damage.
Trust you?
Oh. Okay.
Class dismissed.