July 31st, 2002, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Re: system maps, scale, and such
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I am sure it would make a quite decent size planet if it were collected into one body the way the rest of the planets did.
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Actually, I've heard that the combined mass of all the asteroids is less than Pluto.
There's a reference in the novel 2001: A Space Oddyssey that on average, the asteroid "belt" has one rock per 1000000 mile cube of space (10^18 cubic miles).
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