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Originally Posted by Neverfly
Paul Hogans "Giants" series also referred to a planet Minerva in the solar system.
Supposedly, that is why the asteroid field remains today.
We know that the asteroid field does not contain enough mass to make up an appreciable planet- but I found the Minerva correlation interesting.
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The asteroids-as-lost-planet concept was the predominant hypothesis up until the 1970's, and is widely referenced in early science fiction. Heinlein, Asimov, and "Doc" Smith all played with the notion.
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