Asteroids in fiction
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title:
Asteroids in fiction
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Asteroids have appeared in fiction since at least the late 1800s, the first one—Ceres—having been discovered in 1801. They were initially only used infrequently as writers preferred the planets as settings. The once-popular Phaëton hypothesis, which states that the asteroid belt consists of the remnants of the former fifth planet that existed in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter before somehow being destroyed, has been a recurring theme with various explanations for the planet's destruction prop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_in_fiction
date created:
2006-03-25T16:20:05Z
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2024-09-08T21:04:57Z
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