Earth Chronicles, Zecharia Sitchin

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Is the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars a destroyed planet? I don't know. According to many there is too little material there to have made up a planet. Maybe a moon? Or, is it just remnants of when our solar system was being formed, or reformed?
Fortunately we have a \"base line\" to perform our experiments and investigations with, the Document.

I think from this overview illustration that the material between Mars and Jupiter is a bit more extensive than most think.


Asteroid belt

Basalt has also been found in space rocks shed by Vesta, the third largest object in the asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The presence of basalt is evidence that an object was once large enough to sustain internal heating.

"We need now to observe both objects in the near-infrared range to confirm whether they have a basaltic surface," said study leader Rene Duffard of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Grenada, Spain. "If they do, we will need to try to work out where they came from and the fate of their parent objects. If they do not, we will have to come up with a new class of asteroid."

Strange Asteroids Baffle Scientists

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WOW when you look at the asteroid belt this way i start to wonder how any of our probes mage it through to Jupiter, Saturn and so on??????

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Did they go through or over?
What I find very interesting is the Greeks, Trojans and Hildas.

From that Wikipedia article:

More than half the mass of the main belt is contained in the four largest objects: 1 Ceres, 4 Vesta, 2 Pallas, and 10 Hygiea. All of these have mean diameters of more than 400 km, while Ceres, the main belt's only dwarf planet, is about 950 km in diameter.[1][2][3][4] The remaining bodies range down to the size of a dust particle. The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that multiple unmanned spacecraft have traversed it without incident.

That article also states the combined mass is only about 4% of our moons. I wonder just how true that is and just how accurate that article is.