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Was the asteroid belt once a planet? Did the planet lose its orbit and shatter?
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According to the Titius-Bode law, planets form at specific distances from the sun and from one another. The position the asteroid belt is holds is where a 5th planet should be. The Ceres orbit is exactly where Titius-Bode predicts the missing planet. It was thought that a planet had broken up or exploded. It is certain that Jupiter's massive gravitational pull prevented the accretion of the larger chunks of rock into a planet. This is borne out by the low mass of the entire remnants of the main belt and is less than about a third compared to the mass of the moon. The rest of the planet was blown away by the solar wind or pulled into Jupiter's voracious gravity engine.
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Is it possible the sun's rotation speed change causing the fifth planet to depart from its gravitational orbit and break apart? What forces would have caused this catastrophic disaster?
Yes, that could be possible that the sun may have caused to fifth planet to break apart.
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The Main Asteroid Belt is only a small remnant of the material that once resided in the region between Mars and Jupiter, but once may have contained between two to 10 Earth masses of material. However, T-Tauri-type Solar winds from a very young Sun, gravitational perturbations from Jupiter developing nearby, and dynamic interactions with other large planetesimals and protoplanets during the first 100 million years, and continuing collisional grinding over the following 4.5 billion years after the formation of the planets, interfered with the formation of a substantial, single planet and caused most of the mass to be lost to the rest of the Solar System and interstellar space.
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source:http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_8.htm