Was Our Asteroid Belt Once A Planet? #AskDNews

The Main Asteroid Belt sits between Mars and Jupiter. How did it form? Did there used to be a planet there?



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Bode's Law
“The Titius-Bode Law is rough rule that predicts the spacing of the planets in the Solar System. The relationship was first pointed out by Johann Titius in 1766 and was formulated as a mathematical expression by J.E. Bode in 1778. It lead Bode to predict the existence of another planet between Mars and Jupiter in what we now recognize as the asteroid belt.”

Asteroid belt
“The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found.”
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[NamsFilms]

That ad transition was smooth, as smooth as the shave you get with Harry's.

[mmario]

Stop using Harry's and start using your own. Poor Harry.

[Rubbe]

there was life on mars and Venus, and the astroid belt was a super earth that exploded and had life as well.

[billcrab]

it was destroyed by frieza that's old planet namek

[cimbakahn]

Seeker: Maldek is the name given in theosophical writings, as well as in the RA Material, to a planet of this solar system that was located between Mars and Jupiter, but which no longer exists. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter are the remains of Maldek. There is nothing so mysterious about it. It was just another planet inhabited by people that were very wise and enlightened.

[meghauw]

If the planet couldn't form because it was too close to Jupiter, then how was Mercury formed? Mercury is closer to the sun than the asteroid belt is to Jupiter.

[omgIoIwtf]

an entire civilisation could rise, unify, become type III on the kardashev scale, become extinct either by their own hand or some force of nature and STILL never get to see a planet form. that, my friends, is a billion year(s) process that will always elude us and just goes to show how insignificant our scale of time is. it measures well for us, but not for the cosmos. whatever is truly going on in this universe we call home, it happening on a much larger scale. that simply fascinates me.

[serpentsepia]

You can also say that there had once been a planet there and it got torn apart by Jupiter's gravity as it grew in size during the early solar system. And because of Jupiter's immense gravity, it prevented the remains from reforming back into a planet.

[WarrioRAbsolutE]

It is not only the debris that are known as the asteroid belt, it is also all the asteroids called trojans that are orbiting at the Jupiter's orbit that are part from the destroyed planet. And of course many amounts of that destroyed planet's debris are escaped this orbit and crushed upon other planets. Such as Mars who was destroyed and even Earth. Maybe the moon came from the same debris of the destroyed planet.

[kevinkraft]

In the UK it's illegal (kinda) to have a product placed ad on youtube without first telling the viewer before they start watching. It's definitely illegal on TV.

[jabargalaroza]

TIAMATHE, Tiamat, Nemec, according to the ancient folklore..

[AG]

Yep but it got destroyed in the human-alien wars

[-comment]

If you can transition that well into an ad every time, I might actually even be looking forward to it.

[lifeonmarz]

LOL "But if you want a close shave, try Harry's". Very well done!!!! 3:02

[mrheiniw]

Yes, it was once a planet called Maldek. Look it up here on YT

[timhallas]

The real question is: did our moon come from the orbit that now contains the asteroid belt?

[Daitokuji]

I remember reading that the asteroid belt doesn't have enough mass to have been a planet, but why don't the include the moons of jupiter and mars and what about all what may have been lost when pieces of it may have crashed into planets like Earth Mars and Jupiter? What if it was a planet and it got destroyed and the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was from this destroyed planet?

[Skrkro]

So I've been looking into this more and so far the only 2 pieces of evidence that I could find against the planet theory are:
1. there's not enough material
2. the material doesn't match
Here's my question(s):
If There just so happened to be a planet that exploded, do scientists actually expect all the material to be scattered evenly across the asteroid belt? also do scientists actually think planets are made of a single material? ALSO with Jupiter being so close and so big, wouldn't its gravitational pull bring a lot of that material towards it? I mean, Jupiter does have the most moons, and the next sequence of planets have decreasingly less moons as you go back. In my opinion, I think Scientists are missing the bigger picture here.

[dalesen]

I guess this needs an update...FALSE INFO NOW!
Latest version per science is this was a planet that was destroyed.

[LabyrinthMike]

Technically, I believe that Ceres is a dwarf planet, like Pluto. it has enough gravitational pull to form a sphere. A object like Vesta is an actual asteroid.