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The collection of asteroids does not include enough mass to be the debris of a lost planet, as was once thought. The current theory is that Jupiter’s gravity prevented a planet from ever forming there. Instead, “planetismals” (the asteroids) formed from the matter there, through the process of “accretion”.
