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3945014 No.3945014 [Reply] [Original]

Why did the asteroid belt form the way it did and in the location it did?

>> No.3945017

Gravity.

Next!

>> No.3945021
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>>3945017
why would gravity make it form there and not anywhere else?

>> No.3945023

gravity and velocity.

>> No.3945030

>>3945021

Math.

>> No.3945032

No planets orbit in that range to clear the orbit.

>> No.3945040

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lema%C3%AEtre%E2%80%93Tolman_metric
Why ask when you can calcuate.

>> No.3945043

god put it there

>> No.3945049

Because whatever protoplanet and/or satellite was destroyed in that area and therefore kept that orbit, dummy.

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>>3945043
makes much more sense then this 'LOL THEORY' shit, thanks for reminding me

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>>3945014

So you're saying that was a plant before that got wrecked big time and now it's distributed out in a ring of asteroids?

>> No.3945069

It was just a random event like with every planet. There were going to be planets, but where exactly each one was, and what mass each would be, was random. And the random element was disturbed by Jupiter, which pushed the system over the edge by keeping the planetesimals and asteroids in the zone from accreting fully.

>> No.3945075

A alien race used the planet that was there to test a stellar converter.