If we were to fast forward billions of years?

Question

would the asteroid field between mars and jupiter become a planet?

Answer 1

no jupiter and mars  gravity keep the astroid from forming a planet.and also the asroids might have all goten destroyed by the expansion of the sun.

Answer 2

nobody knows that

cause in billions of years

this solorsystem will not exist

Answer 3

Well, if we fast forward far enough, the entire configuration of the solar system changes.

This is kind of a "solar system without us" kind of question.

If humans survive to get off-world, the solar system will indeed look quite different in a couple of thousand years than it does today.

With humans , the solar system is likely to eventually overflow with life, first small industrial/research colonies on the moon, Mars , the asteroids and the major moons of the outer solar system.

Eventually, (barring some sort of hyperdrive) we will have small outpost colonies on the very distant Jupiter like systems between the nearest star-systems, (sort of a island hopping,gas station) for interstellar star-ships.

The Moon, and Mars, will have water imported from comets perhaps small planitesimals being impacted into their surfaces, for use by colonists.

On the moon, this would increase sub-surface water-tables, but really do nothing to create an atmosphere or anything like that, since it's too small for a thick atmosphere, but many large basins and underground cave-systems may exist and be perfect for housing large quantities of water.

Mars is another matter altogether, given enough time, and the desire to do so, it's likely that Mars will be thoroughly terraformed to perhaps be something like a high badlands, like Montana in the north, with a planet spanning shallow sea in the south.

The asteroids themselves, might be redirected to form several small planets, on the order of Ceres, which could be used as way stations and mining facilities for ships transiting to the outer solar system.

Furthermore the asteroids themselves could become the raw material for slow gravity "ships" which would orbit the sun and planets in special customized orbits to intersect with major transportation destinations, providing "free" regular (if slow) transportation to all the major travel destinations of the solar system with the added benefit of free interstellar radiation protection given the mass of some of the asteroids in question.

Without us, however the asteroid belt would continue more or less to exist as it is, given Jupiter's perturbing effect, the belt cannot really form up a new planet of any serious size.

In a few billion years, however, our Moon will leave the orbit of Earth, and will likely glide outwards capturing some asteroids and slowly settling into an orbit outside that of Earth's.

Eventually as the sun expands, the central mass of the solar system will diffuse and the orbits of all the planets and asteroids will shift outwards, as the sun expands as a red giant, while the asteroids will be less affected than the relatively larger inner planets, Mars, is likely to move into an orbit which is much closer to the asteroids so eventually Mars could capture and or be impacted directly and eventually gain mass from many such asteroids impacting upon the surface.

Answer 4

The debris in the asteroid belt is spread around its entire orbit. For anything to form there all that debris would need to be one spot and there is no physical reason it would do that in the future. That plus the total mass of all the objects in the asteroid belt is still only a fraction of the moon's mass... and nowhere near Earth's. But there are already some dwarf planets within the belt (at least I believe they are dwarf planets... one can't be too sure theses days now that Pluto is gone). Ceres is the biggest and is large enough to form a spherical shape and have a crust mantle and core, IT MAY EVEN HAVE A LIQUID WATER OCEAN! much like Europa... the asteroid belt seems to be a pretty interesting place.

Answer 5

what is an astroid field?

Answer 6

Some astronomers think that the asteroid belt is what's left of a planet that was blown up by the Death Star. As for them ever forming a planet, not before the rings of Saturn do.