🚀 go-pugleaf

Brett Holman (bholman@physics.unimelb.edu.au) wrote:
: Ken Wessels wrote:

: >     There is no excuse for being on this group and acting like the
: > "Asteroid Belt" is a weird notion. It does seem like the remnants of
: > another, possibly small, planet. 

: I posted the combained mass of the asteroid belt two weeks ago;
: it is only 0.0004 Earth masses, far smaller than any planet. Also,
: meteorites (presumably from the belt) are not sedimentary rocks, which
: you might expect if they are remains of planets. All indications
: are that they formed in weightless environments (except for martian and
: lunar meteorites of cources). I am not sure how the recent Galileo
: asteroid fly-bys back this up.

: The asteroid belt seems to be left-over material from the formation
: of the solar system, prevented from forming a planet by the 
: gravitational influence of Jupiter and the Sun. There doesn't seem
: to be any reason to doubt this.

: > I don't see how Earth could be "half" of
: > the destroyed planet.
: >     It seems when science and speculation merge, science gets ridiculed as
: > much as the speculation. Another fault appears. Seperating the two is the
: > next step in analytical thinking. The "real world" is apprehendable.

: I have no problem with science and speculation. Speculation is a 
: necessary part of science. It's only when (as was the case with the
: original post in this thread) speculation is not based on any scientific
: facts that have a problem.

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	left over?
	huh?

	generally,
	this stuff is metamorphic blobs ...

	it melted and recongealed ...

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Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us