A former asteroidal planet as the origin of comets

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Asteroids, Comets, Cosmology, Orbit Calculation, Planetary Evolution, Solar System, Cosmic Rays, Meteoritic Composition, Orbital Elements, Radiation Effects, Statistical Distributions, Tektites, Origin, Comets, Solar System, Asteroids, Meteors, Mars, Jupiter, Perihelion, Fragments, Planets, Meteorites, Cosmic Rays, Exposure Ages, Tektites, Explosions, Distance, Evolution, Hypothesis, Sun, Velocity, Ejecta, Asymmetry, Missing Planet

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It is suggested that all comets originated about 5.5 million years ago when a large (90 earth mass) planet in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter broke up. Direct calculation permits prediction of the distribution of the orbital elements of objects moving on long-period ellipses which might have originated during breakup, and it is found that the comet orbits have the predicted distribution in every case where a measure is possible. In particular, some of the distribution anomalies, such as a bias in the directions of perihelion passage, are statistically strong. Compositional similarities among comets, asteroids, and meteorites are noted, and the significance of the young cosmic-ray exposure ages of meteorites is examined. The possibility that tektites originated as a result of the planetary breakup is considered.

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