12-19-2014, 07:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2014, 04:41 AM by dreamliner.)
(12-19-2014, 11:41 AM)Spaced Wrote: Rosetta is the name of the space craft, the comet is named 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (quite a mouthful innit?). Like most comets 67P originated in the Kuiper belt which extends beyond the orbit of the known planets.
For remnants of Maldek I would look instead to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, including bodies such as the dwarf planet Ceres or the asteroids Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea, etc.
Thanks for correction.
I tend to not take that "kuiper belt origin explanation/hypothesis" as the solid fact, because many such concepts in astronomy/planetary science are hypotheses yet, not facts.
In addition to that; currrent mainstream view do not accept "The Phaeton hypothesis" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_%2..._planet%29 ), which could have given rise to some other hypotheses with regard to the origin of that comet.
Asteroid belt, of course, is the main location to look for the remnants of maldek. However, due to the disintegration/explosion energy, comets like 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko might have begun wandering on different trajectories (than other asteroid belt objects) just after disintegration/explosion of the planet. Those different trajectories may look like as if 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko had originated from kuiper belt.