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Brett Holman (bholman@physics.unimelb.edu.au) wrote:
: Ralph Silverman wrote:
:  
: > 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.

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: > 
: >         left over?
: >         huh?
: > 
: >         generally,
: >         this stuff is metamorphic blobs ...
: > 
: >         it melted and recongealed ...

: What is a non sequitur?

: Your point is what? That this material is not left over from
: the formation of the solar system? What is it from then?

: (Your last three lines are not inconsistent with my statement on
: the asteroid's origin.)

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: Brett Holman            bholman@physics.unimelb.edu.au
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	there are different kinds of
		planets;
		gas giants,
		terrestrial type
		etc.
	.

	terrestrial type planets have
	molten cores of liquid minerals
	.

	if the molten core of such a
	planet should be violetly
	and suddenly exposed to the frigid
	environment of space,
	(by a kind of splattering);
	the result would be much similar
	to typical asteroids ... 

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Ralph Silverman
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