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Old April 15th, 2002, 11:15 PM
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Default Re: The sun just went NOVA...

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the system that was destroyed had a few huge planets with moons around them - one of them now shows 3 huge-sized asteroid fields
in one sector; is this common or a fluke?
I've seen a core instability event destroy a planet and leave an asteroid field with the original planet's two moons still there.

I thought that the size of the planet determines the size of the asteroid field, but there might be a random factor, as well.
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