The Egyptians were great astronomers for their day. However, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is thought to be a planet that got too close to Jupiter and was torn apart by Jupiter's gravitational field.
Current theory has it that it may have been comets that enabled life on Earth because they contain a lot of water-ice. When comets impacted the Earth billions of years ago, it is theorized they may have been responsible for bringing water to the Earth and forming the Earth's oceans.
2006-08-30 18:42:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Nope, and nope.
Our solar system formed from a disk of gas and dust. A lot of the solids in the disk accreted to form the asteroids and rocky planets.
Early in our solar system's history, there may have been more than twice the number of planets that there are now. But they collided and merged, until the remainders were far enough apart that they couldn't really affect each other gravitationally. Those remainders are the planets we know today.
The exception was the asteroid belt. Situated between Mars & Jupiter, the asteroids are for the most part too far from both planets to get swept up by them. But at the same time, Jupiter's mass is so great that the force of its gravity exerts a constant pull on the asteroids, preventing them from grouping together into a single planet. Since the asteroids and Jupiter orbit around the sun at different speeds, Jupiter's gravity acts to even out any "wrinkles" in the belt which would otherwise eventually become lumps that grow into a planet.
So the asteroid belt isn't an exploded planet, but just the opposite: a failed planet, one that never formed to begin with.
2006-08-31 01:48:02
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answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7
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No, the asteroid belt is not the remains of an exploded planet.
It is a such a distance where one would have expected to find a planet, under some gravitational resonance models (a bit like waves, but of matter) of how the planets condensed in our solar system.
But the total mass of the asteroid belt is just 4.7E22 kilos, which is just 0.8 percent of the mass of the Earth, and just 64 percent of the mass of the moon.
So in the best case you might have had a very modest planet, too small to have an atmosphere, plate tectonics, etc. It seems that Jupiter was too close and prevented a planet from ever foming where the asteroid belt lies.
does this help?
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2006-08-31 08:52:20
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answered by AntoineBachmann 5
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Astronomers believe that the asteroid belt is a result of a rocky planet like ours that disintegrated early on in the solar system's history. That's not to say that it had life like ours that 'seeded' the earth just before this catastrophic event. Having said that, there are some theories that a seeding event had to occur due to the very small probability that life on Earth could have come about by pure chance. This seeding is a sort of 'jump start' on life and takes the form of viruses, the simplest 'life' to exist. Viruses are very tough and can survive where other life would perish such as in nuclear reactors and interstellar space..
2006-08-31 03:31:15
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answered by Sal 2
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only the remnants left over from the formation of the solar system.. We should be praying to planet Jupitor for being so big and acting like a vacuum cleaner by sucking in all the debris in the solar system.....at least most of it.
2006-08-31 01:42:16
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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Misuse magic, magic gets taken away. And no. Osirus Horus Isis has nothing to do with it. It was previous to Egypt
2006-08-31 02:18:57
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answered by understoodu19765t4 1
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You have is somewhat correct. Aliens came to planet earth an infused their DNA with that of primates, creating humans.
2006-08-31 01:40:43
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answered by Kelly D 4
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wtf, if so, how did they come up with such an idea with out traditions, a human and ape characteristic, passed down through the generations of single celled organisms? If u belive in creation even u cant belive in this, therefore both theroys say no
2006-08-31 01:41:19
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answered by Martin 3
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yes and no
2006-08-31 02:33:23
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answered by Anonymous
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