If a planet exploded thousands of years ago would there be evidence?
4 Answers to "If a planet exploded thousands of years ago would there be evidence?"
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Yes, an asteroid belt if the planet was large enough but if it was earth size or smaller it's doubtful that enough remnents of the would remain in the local vicinity. Also the orbits of the rest of the planets would have been affected since the distortion of space-time fabric and our respective orbits all depend on everything remaining exactly the right distance from the sun to prevent "falling in".
I suppose you could investigate solar calenders like and monuments that literally charted the movements of stars and planets that were constructed before 500BC. If any of the marked positions have moved then that could be evidence of a "lost" planet. However, since people have been using the stars to navigate for thousands of years I'm pretty sure if a star or planet that disappeared they would have made a note of it and altered their charts accordingly. Also 500BC is only 2488 years ago, that's pretty recent for a planet to "explode" without anyone noticing.Like (1)
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You noticed the asteroid belt between the orbits of Earth and Mars did you?
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yes but the oort cloud alltogether only would make 4% the mass of the moon too small for a planet.
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Then why is it in the missing planet's orbit? This is very obvious math at work. I question the mass estimate.
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If it is in our solar system, not only will be evidence, we'll be affected by it.
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in what way? note that this hypothetical planet exploded around 500 BC.
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Posted by Aladdin96 Dec 20th, 2012 at 1:01PM
i find it weird tht planets are shaped as a perfect circle ..
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Reply by usyou Dec 20th, 2012 at 1:03PM
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Reply by GnatFree Dec 20th, 2012 at 1:22PM
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