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Did a large terrestrial planet ever form in the region of the asteroid belt?

April 26, 2017asteroid BELT form large Planet region terrestrial

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Did a large terrestrial planet ever form in the region of the asteroid belt?

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Current thinking is that the Asteroid Belt never constituted a single terrestrial body in the past; for whatever reason, there was not enough mass in the Belt for the matter there to accrete into a single body, as happened in the case of Earth or Mars, e.g.