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Solar Patroller
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 Posted - 12 Jun 2010 : 01:02:57
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Dr. van Flandern's model for planetary formation is brilliant and probably the most important in planetological history but it might need some more adjustments. The belts of the TransNeptunian Region overlap. Could this be evidence of a collision? Most solar systems we know of have planets with eccetric orbits and in plasma cosmology there is a period of eccentric orbits.
Also, the moons of Krypton, presumably there was a whole retinue, probably as large as the Galilean moons, may not have exploded but may have collided instead, being destabilized. |
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Larry Burford
USA
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Posted - 17 Jun 2010 : 22:45:22
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Collisions can range from near misses (which will still disrupt the bodies involved to one extent or another) to head-on dead center hits. The relative size and speed of the bodies are also considerations.
A dead center hit where the masses are within about a factor of five of each orher will produce results that are hard to distinguish from an explosion. Glancing blows will generally produce results that are easy to distinguish.
We see lots of explosion-like events (and their aftermath) in the universe when we look through our high power telescopes. We know that collisions are very unlikely because space is more than 99 44/100% empty. We do not know how likely single body explosions are (with the possible exception of stellar explosions) so we cannot say that they are rare, and we cannot say that they are common.
If your favorite cosmology model allows you to make some specific predictions, why don't you try to match them to the vast observational evidence man has accumulated and let us know what you find.
Regards,
LB
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Solar Patroller
Canada
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Posted - 18 Jun 2010 : 21:29:44
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| It's not a model, only a query, and on pondering it more and doing drawings I see the outcome of a collision would not correspondd to the structure of the KB. And I think collisions are too unlikely even for planets in highly elliptical orbits. But I don't know of any explanation for the ovelapping rings of the KB nor its much larger mass than the MB nor for the larger mass of the outer belt of the MB. |
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Revision for a Collision?
