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To: Red Badger
" the model showed thermal forces and gravitational tugs from planets periodically slingshotting large asteroids out of the belt."

Thermal forces? Someone is going to have to explain what that is.

48 posted on 08/09/2021 4:58:47 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: norwaypinesavage
Thermal forces? Someone is going to have to explain what that is.

Well, I guess it's possible that, if frozen gases on were exposed to direct sunlight, the thermal energy might be enough to cause the frozen gases to thaw enough for it to act as a "rocket exhaust" and launch it out of the belt, where gravitational forces would take over ...

I'm not a scientist (mad or otherwise), although I have played one on the stage ...

49 posted on 08/09/2021 5:11:02 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Heat from the sun causes ice to sublimate on objects in the Kuiper belt and the small jets of the escaping vapors send the object on a death plunge into the sun’s gravity well..............


56 posted on 08/10/2021 5:28:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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