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reprise, and a bttt...

The Exploded Planet Hypothesis 2000
Evidence that Mars is a former moon
http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/eph2000.asp

"Especially significant in this regard is the fact that half of Mars is saturated with craters, and half is only sparsely cratered. Moreover, the crustal thickness has apparently been augmented over one hemisphere by up to 20 km or so, gradually tapering off near the hemisphere boundaries. This 'crustal dichotomy' is also readily seen in Martian elevation maps"

The interesting thing is that earth has a similar structure. The Pacific Ocean is a huge, somewhat round, hole in the crust. That is where the material that is now the moon supposedly came from. If half of Mars' crust is gone, that might, assuming structure indicates history, be where the asteroidal material came from. If so, the present orbits of the main belt asteroids and Mars not be the same as the original main body since before that event but some kind of average.

The Exploded Planet Hypothesis - 2000: The Original Solar System
by Tom Van Flandern
...we have strong hints for two original planets near what is now the main asteroid belt: hypothetical "Planet V" and "Planet K". These were probably gas giant planets with moons of significant size, such as Mars, before they exploded. We have hints of two more asteroid belts, probably from the explosions of two more planets ("Planet T" and "Planet X") beyond Neptune. And we have hints for two extra-large gas giant planets, "Planet A" and "Planet B", that exploded back near the solar system beginning. Of the existing nine major planets today, we have strong evidence that Mercury is an escaped moon of Venus [xi], Mars is an escaped moon of Planet V, and Pluto and its moon Charon are escaped moons of Neptune [xii]... This model makes a major prediction that will soon be tested: Extrasolar planets should arise in twin pairs also, with 2-to-1 orbital period resonances common. If so, then many cases that now appear to be single massive planets on highly elliptical orbits will turn out, when enough observations are accumulated, to be twin resonant planets on near-circular orbits.



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