The Planet Phaeton: Did It Shatter To Form The Asteroid Belt?
0Phaeton The Fifth Rocky planet that exploded and created the asteroid belt?
For many years, there has been a debate about whether the Asteroid Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, was a planet that destroyed itself. Many people have speculated about this, and some exciting theories may support this idea. In this video, we'll explore this theory and examine the scientific evidence to determine if the Asteroid Belt is the remains of an ancient planet.
COMPOSITION
The asteroid belt is a ring-shaped region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter; it is made up of several million asteroids ranging from a few centimeters to several km; it also contains five objects of greater mass which are Ceres, the planet dwarf, and the massive asteroids, Pallas, Vesta, Hygia and Juno.
DISCOVERY
In 1766 the astronomer Johann Daniel Titus discovered a supposed pattern in the distance of the planets from the Sun. The pattern consisted of a numerical sequence that started from zero, continued with three, and from there, the previous figure was doubled so that the sequence remained: 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, etc.
In search of the elusive planet
In 1801 the astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach began the search for the happy planet that was between Mars and Jupiter; he summoned 24 astronomers to form what would be known (among themselves) as The Celestial Police, which there were significant astronomers like William Herschel, Charles Messier, Johann Elert Bode, Heinrich Olbers, to mention a few.
Ceres and the asteroid belt
Logically, when finding hundreds of small bodies where they should have found a planet, astronomers thought that perhaps in that region at first, there was a planet destroyed, and only the fragments that made it up remained; these fragments were the asteroids that astronomers were discovering.
The planet Phaeton . The origin of the asteroid belt?
In 1802 the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers proposed that objects in the asteroid belt, including Ceres, were fragments of a planet that initially revolved around the Sun. He also predicted that more of these pieces would be found as part of the asteroid belt.
The true origin of the asteroid belt
Once studies of the chemical composition of objects in the asteroid belt began, astronomers concluded that the diversity of asteroid composition was challenging to fit into the fifth rocky planet theory. So this idea was scrapped.
But if the asteroid belt had not been a planet that was destroyed, then what was its true origin?
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Composition
1:20 discovery
2:55 tidus bode law
5:40 ceres and the asteroid belt
7:40 Phaethon
9:50 the true origin of the asteroid belt
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