Quote (card_sultan @ Nov 14 2014 12:59pm)
both of those links only talk about what an asteroid is and not how they originated.
Ive heard the big bang theory talked about when pondering the origin of planets:
explosion + particle attraction x 10000000000000000000000 = -----> Nice roundish planet.
allow me to paraphrase :
A (ok i get it) + B (sounds logical) = Z (holy crap thats a giant leap)
thats a pretty substantial conclusion.
Like why are the planets so roundish , why are they essential on the same flat plane? Why do they all orbit the sun in the same direction? Planets are round because gravity pulls at every direction equally, they orbit the equator of the sun, The sun spins one way so the planets orbit in the same direction
Are asteroids the result of the Big Bang or a collision? Asteroids are probably a mix of something exploding and collisions, a planet sized object hits another planet sized object, matter is ejected into space at a high rate of speed, asteroids are created
If they were from a collision - couldn't we use a supercomputer to essentially see if they fit together by backwards engineering the trillion piece jigsaw puzzle? With how big the universe is, and the speed everything moves at along with the 14 or so billion year span the event that created the asteroids could have happened, the computer would probably explode trying to figure it out as even weak gravities from "nearby" stars and black holes could alter the pathing by even the smallest of degrees, thus sending it on an entirely different path
(that is essentially the way we figured out Global Tectonics because one person noticed the western coast of Africa fit the eastern coast of South America like a glove)
So many questions, so little time.
Really - who told you that?
I tried to give some answers based on what I think