BaronVonBigmeat
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- Sep 20, 2005
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Thing I don't get about comets - if they are the result of the Big Bang - yet are losing a percentage of their 'matter' (their tails), how can they still BE here "Hundreds of Millions" of years after the fact?
There's always the exploded planet hypothesis. According to this, the asteroid field, as well as many comets, are the remains of a large planet which once orbited between Jupiter and Mars, and exploded in the recent past (recent in geologic terms). This would also explain Mars's odd orbit, it's bulged shape, it's sudden loss of atmosphere, and the fact that one half of it's surface appears to have a different composition than the rest. These would all be what you'd expect to see on a former moon that was hit by a big explosion.