Or at least that's what Richard Hoagland always told me on Art Bell's late night radio program...
I am still waiting for his undeniable evidence that Hale-Bopp couldn't have formed naturally.
The “9th planet” is now the asteroid belt. It used to be a planet until it exploded, taking Mars’ atmosphere with it.
Or at least that’s what Richard Hoagland always told me on Art Bell’s late night radio program...
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You remember the exploding part right, but it was not RCH’s idea ; he was just repeating astronomer Tom Van Flandern’s “Exploding Planets” theory which accounted for the orbits of comets as well.
Hoagland is quite the character.
According to him Mars is overrun with shattered ruins of ancient glass domes....hope the future astronauts don’t get any paper cuts...
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Creationists believe that the asteroid belt is gravity acting to accrete new planet