Re: This may be the most important aticle I have ever written.



Doug Weller <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:9235m35kau4fb5f1scu31tu5ke1d3c9e96@xxxxxxx:

And, as I recall, scientists no longer believe that there was ever a
planet that exploded to be the asteroid belt.

Not since the 50s, at the latest. It's pretty much a given that the belt
formed as it looks now - a bunch of floating rocks.

Anywho, planets don't explode.

David

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