[henk brouwer]

Originally posted by geoschmo:


That being said the area the asteroids cover is a tremendous one, and the toal mass of the rocks is quite large. 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.

Geoschmo

Actually it wouldn't. The total mass isn't very impressive, all the asteroids together would make an object that's smaller than the earths moon ( http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/asteroids.html ) The earths moon is quite large though, for a moon at least (larger than Pluto for example).

Edit: aaaaargh I'm typing to slow, Capnq beat me with his post...

[ July 31, 2002, 19:59: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]