Did a lost planet once rule the space between Mars and Jupiter?
In short: The asteroid belt is often viewed as a chaotic graveyard of debris, but some theories suggest it was once home to a single, massive world. This video explores the evidence for a vanished planet that may have been shattered into billions of pieces.
The main asteroid belt spans at least 300 million kilometers and contains billions of objects ranging from tiny pebbles to landmasses comparable to Australia. While it currently appears as a scattered herd of cosmic debris, some scientists hypothesize that a large planet once orbited in this region before disappearing.
A key piece of evidence for this theory is the Titius-Bode Law, a numerical sequence that surprisingly aligns with the distances of most planets in our solar system. The law suggests a mathematical regularity that implies something might be missing from the gap between Mars and Jupiter.
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