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Mind-Blowing Facts About Asteroids

Friday, October 5, 2012 19:38
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By: Nina Sen, Life’s Little Mysteries Contributor
Date: 02 October 2012
 
Asteroids are small rocky objects orbiting the sun. They are too small to be called planets yet are sometimes called minor planets or planetoids. Many asteroids are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Asteroid Belt.

Scientists estimate the main belt alone contains more than 1 million asteroids. The total number in the solar system could be much higher if space rocks beyond Neptune’s orbit are considered.

Scientists say collisions of space rocks with the Earth must have happened many times over its 4.5 billion year history, especially early on. If a large asteroid were found to be heading toward Earth today, scientists and engineers could possibly devise a plan to track and deflect it, expert say.

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  • The asteroid belt is about 550 million kilometers in “width” (on the ecliptic of our solar system). This is a huge chunk of the solar system, a distance that should include a planetary object or two, in fact, it did, but a very long time ago. What happened? Planet X or Nibiru has been transiting our solar system for many millions of years and as it happens, Planet X is accompanied by a complex of small and large moons and an immense debris field, referred to a tail. During one pass, it collapsed several planets in this 550 million kilometer zone into planetary debris. Now this happened over many Millennia as Planet X passed by (into our solar system) in it’s cyclical 3,600 + orbit cycle. As it entered this area of our solar system, the moons of Planet X collided with the planets in this area and the “asteroid belt” is the result.

    We discuss Planet X and the impending poleshift at our facebook page:

    http://www.facebook.com/groups/163505327072320/

    Come and join the conversation, you need this information.

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