If there was a planet in our solar system between mars and jupiter, what type of planet would it be?
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The planet between Jupitur and Mars would be a rock like planet indeed. Possibly like a moon of Jupiturs, or maybe a cold-mercury. However, Id rather call it a basic object floating around the sun. I will explain later.
The reason why there is no such object there is the fact that our obese pal in space, jupitur, hogs so much room, and has such a huge gravitational pull, that it kept pulling the rocks apart before they could collide enough to stick together. Some astronomers estimate that Its gravity flinged pieces of rock out of the solar system at insane speeds!
As for why I dont consider it a planet: One of the discarded theories about the asteroid belt is that it was a former planet that was blasted to bits. However, there would have been an object the size of our moon or larger that would have had to had done that. Also, adding the pieces together, the planet would have been smaller than pluto (which is smaller than our moon!) Therefore, astronomers stick with the theory above.
There isn't a planet between Venus and Earth, either, and so on.
The asteriod belt is there, and it could have been a planet hit by an ansteroid that broke into pieces and stayed in orbit. So, it might be more earthlike with some noxious gases.
wouldn't it be right in the asteroid belt?
you know about the astroid belt between mars and jupiter well that use to be a planet but it couldn't withstand jupiters gravity and then it shattered into millions
of astroids
A small rocky plant, perhaps about the size of earths moon,
without atmosphere.A cold dead rocky world...
The plant Jupiter prevented the formation of a planet in this orbit.
It would be a rocky planet.
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