Carl Sagan Quote

The asteroid belt may be a place where a planet was once prevented from forming because of the gravitational tides of the giant nearby planet Jupiter; or it may be the shattered remains of a planet that blew itself up. This seems improbable because no scientist on Earth knows how a planet might blow itself up, which is probably just as well.

Cosmos, Chapter IV (p. 87)

The asteroid belt may be a place where a planet was once prevented from forming because of the gravitational tides of the giant nearby planet...

The asteroid belt may be a place where a planet was once prevented from forming because of the gravitational tides of the giant nearby planet...

The asteroid belt may be a place where a planet was once prevented from forming because of the gravitational tides of the giant nearby planet...

The asteroid belt may be a place where a planet was once prevented from forming because of the gravitational tides of the giant nearby planet...