Origin of Trans-Neptunian AsteroidsIn Dark Matter, , we described evidence indicating that Pluto & Charon and the disruption of Neptunes satellite system may have resulted from a past encounter with "Planet X". But in that study, the late Robert Harrington and I did not investigate the effect such an encounter might have had on any natural rings around Neptune at the time. However, since rings are made up of individual bodies that behave dynamically like individual satellites, it seems clear that a Neptunian ring could have met the same fate as other Neptunian moons being stripped away from Neptune into an independent solar orbit that remains Neptune-crossing. Such is the present condition for the solar orbit of Pluto and its large moon Charon.
by Tom Van Flandern
Meta Research Bulletin
Volume 4, Number 3
September 15, 1995
Dark Matter,
Missing Planets
and New Comets:
Paradoxes Resolved,
Origins Illuminated
by Tom Van Flandern
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