Asteroids were actually dead planets

It is very tempting to imagine that the asteroids that are undesirable in our solar system have been there from the beginning, they are orbiting the sun for many ages during training Planets, but new research suggests that things are not so simple that they seem to be. Asteroids are not just temporary collections of dust and debris that have just been created to form larger rocks. The asteroids that we see today have much more complex stories related to their origin.

According to a new article published in Nature Astronomy, many pieces of rock present within our small planetary neighborhood are actually pieces of planets that have long since died and have been separated, in the first days where the solar system comes to exist.

On the basis of which asteroids are supposed to come, they are distinguished by astronomers, including a planet still present as Mars, an unidentified body that is no longer present, or even a system quite different, but how many sources have participated in the collection of asteroids around us is still a puzzle to solve. This new comprehensive research looked closely at making individual asteroids in the inner solar system, and as well as their orbital trajectories at the present time, then the time is rewound to find out when each individual asteroid was born.

The article reveals that a vast majority of nearly 85% of the rocks present in the inner part of our system would come from the small number of planets that formed early. These large asteroids clashed regularly, which eventually caused collisions and in some cases were torn apart by each other due to their gravitational pull. As a result, many pieces of rock did not have a focus and they simply stayed in the orbits of these planets that personify their mother planet.

Each asteroid that traces its birth to the same body from which it was born helps in forming a larger "family" of asteroids, and scientists now use this information as the beginning to find the answer to the question of knowing how the long-lost planets were, and how they composed their composition. In addition, they try to discover why some asteroids act differently even if they belong to the same family.