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{{Infobox paper
| title = Plausibility of Electrical Birth of Asteroid Belt
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_paperlink_7319.docx Link to paper]
| author = [[Raymond H Gallucci]]
| keywords = [[Asteroid Belt; Electrical Discharge; Mars; Ceres; Valle Marineris]]
| published = 2015
| num_pages = 2
}}

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==Abstract==

Formation of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is traditionally assumed to have occurred primordially when a group of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimal planetesimals] formed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanet protoplanets] that, through [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity gravitational] perturbations from Jupiter, were imbued with too much orbital energy to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics) accrete] into a planet, until violent collisions shattered most of the protoplanets, thereby forming the asteroid belt. Electric Universe theory contends there was an electrical discharge interaction on a planetary scale when a planetesimal closely encountered Mars, causing not only Mars’ material to be ejected, but also disintegrated much, if not all, of the planetesimal. The ejected debris eventually formed the asteroid belt; and possibly Valle Marineris which scars nearly 20% of Mars’ circumference, is the ‘smoking gun.” Here I examine not the electrical discharge phenomena, but crudely estimate whether or not the total mass of the belt could have arisen from such an interaction.

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[[Category:Gravity]]
[[Category:Cosmology]]
[[Category:Electric Universe]]