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6th inwards: Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Planet-Ex.

Counting planets is tricky business. Best to specify the target as the one with the most ugly monkeys on it.

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Counting the belt, the 6th planet inwards is Mars. Pluto isn't a planet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Of course, doesn't the asteroid belt have something like 5% the mass of Earth's moon? Not a very likely remnant of a destroyed planet if you ask me.

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if you destroyed a planet... how much of it would end up staying it that orbit?

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Ah, but it was.

And that just emphasizes my point http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

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Picture. A picture would help a lot. Especially a 3d one.

(With knowing which planet to attack)

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I'd wager most of it would stay in the same general orbital region. Some pieces would fly out orthogonally and enter highly elliptical orbits, but I'd wager that most of the pieces would not be given divergent enough velocities to do much other than increase or decrease the orbital distance by a small margin.

Rules for glassing a planet
 

#1: Make sure you have the right planet.

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Huge amount of anti-matter. The planet was mostly converted to energy when the anti-matter 'bomb' contacted the planet!

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Oh, and quarks.
Quarks would turn the interstellar space foam into black holes, and suck away some of the planet.
And they'de do it by barking.
Barking Quarks.

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