The Natural Boundary Between Rocky Planets And Gas Giants
462On a distant cosmic morning about 4.5 billion years ago, when our Solar System was little more than a screaming newborn in the infinity of space, something went wrong between Mars and Jupiter. Where a planet should have formed - a sort of big brother to Earth - we instead find thousands of cosmic rocks wandering in an orbital limbo: the Main Asteroid Belt.
If we could fly over this region aboard a spacecraft, we'd enjoy a view that would defy imagination: rocks of all sizes, from as small as a pebble to as large as a mountain, silently orbiting in the void.
Actually, no, scratch that! Truth is, we wouldn't see much of anything unless we had the luck - or bad luck - of getting close to a really large asteroid. Otherwise, just stars, darkness, and a few moving points of light.
You're probably wondering what astronomical knowledge those sci-fi movies based their fantastical scenes on when they show the asteroid belt as some kind of cosmic obstacle course... Well, you'll get the answer from this video!
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Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr
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00:00 Intro
1:15 Where is the Asteroid Belt located
2:40 How Did the asteroid belt form?
5:22 the lords of the belt: 1. Ceres
8:14 the lords of the belt 2. Vesta 3. Pallas
9:02 rocks of all the types
10:40 the orbits
11:50 close-up explorations
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