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Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world

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Artist's impression of Earth's collision with Theia

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Bits of an ancient planet called Theia may be buried in Earth’s mantle

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What would it take to make the most inhospitable planet for life?

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Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for Earth – but beautiful

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Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?

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NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal asteroid may reveal how Earth formed

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Artist's concept of Makemake

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Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water

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Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

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Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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Mysterious dark spot on Neptune seen from Earth for the first time

Observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile suggest Neptune’s blemish is caused by dark particles deep within its atmosphere

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All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be because of the sun

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Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?

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Storms on Saturn are so huge that their traces last hundreds of years

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Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a planet?

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