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A Review of Dynamical Evidence Concerning a Former Asteroidal Planet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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This paper is a brief review of results presented elsewhere (Van Flandern 1977, 1978). The conclusion of these results is that at least the comets, and probably also the asteroids and meteorites, originated in the breakup of a major planet in the present location of the asteroid belt, at an epoch of just 5×106 years ago. Although there are many “well-known facts” about the solar system which seem to contradict this conclusion, these contradictory “facts”, upon closer examination, are often not so convincing as we have been inclined to assume; in each instance so far suggested there is a plausible alternative interpretation of the data which is supportive of the breakup hypothesis. A compelling contradictory argument has not yet surfaced. In view of this, and in consideration of the strength of the arguments favoring the hypothesis, it will be necessary to judge the conclusion on the merits of the case, without the intervention of the apriori decision that it cannot be true.
- Type
- Part V: Minor Planets
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 257 - 262
- Copyright
- Copyright © Reidel 1979
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Bensusen, S. J. and Van Flandern, T. C.: 1978, in “Abstracts of Papers of the 144th National Meeting of the AAAS; 12-17 February 1978”, Washington, p. 105.Google Scholar
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