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dglmal@telis.com (dglmal@telis.org) wrote:
: If you look at our solar system we have a missing planet.  This missing
: planet has left plenty of evidence if we look between the orbits of Mars &
: Jupiter there should be a planet. However, what we find is called the
: Asteroid Belt. 
: My theory is that the Asteroid belt several millions (160 or so) ago was
: really a planet that for some reason it exploded killing off the Earth's
: dinosaurs, destroyed all life on mars by blowing away most of Mar's
: atmosphere.

Your "theory" seems to consist of an old assertion (that the asteroid belt
may have been a planet), some unteneable nonsense (torn apart by tidal
forces, maybe; exploded? Ridiculous.) and a lot of missing pieces (like,
with all of space to expand into, and the gravitational fields of the
other planets, why would any debris reach here? Where's the evidence of 
the multiple *recent* cratering? What did it selectively kill dinosaurs
and not other life forms? Etc...)

On the other hand, it's of a very high quality for this particular forum.

: This theory also explains why the earth has such a over size satellite and
: why the super continent Pangea broke into seven smaller continents that are
: now drifting around the globe.

How does it explain that?

: Check the mass of the belt and moon, I think you will find there is a
: enough dirt floating around out there to equal a good size terrestrial
: planet.

Why "terrestrial"? There's plenty of mass without the moon. Your theory 
would also have a hard time explaining why the moon is so old, and so
round.

--mike