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May 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978m%26p....18..327o&link_type=abstract

Moon and the Planets, vol. 18, May 1978, p. 327-337.

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Asteroids, Astronomical Models, Planetary Evolution, Solar System, Explosions, Gravitational Effects

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Ovenden's hypothesis (1972) suggesting the former existence of a planet of 90 earth masses which supposedly filled the Titius-Bode gap in the asteroid belt and then suddenly disappeared 16 million years ago is examined critically using a morphological method. An examination of the total mass in the asteroid belt and of hypothetical mechanisms of explosive removal and removal by a gravitational encounter demonstrates that the hypothesis of the existence and sudden disappearance of such a planet belongs to the realm of the impossible. An event of that type would have led to the disappearance of life on earth or to a rearrangement of asteroids between Jupiter and Mars.

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