Originally posted by Rao Kal El
Of course, see asteroid belt natures way to show a planet destroyed that didn't abandon an orbital trench.
On Wiki it says the hypothesis that the Asteroid belt was the result of a destroyed planet was falsified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_beltUnder Formation it says...
"In 1802, shortly after discovering Pallas, Olbers suggested to Herschel that Ceres and Pallas were fragments of a much larger planet that once occupied the Mars–Jupiter region, this planet having suffered an internal explosion or a cometary impact many million years before. Over time, however, this hypothesis has fallen from favor. The large amount of energy required to destroy a planet, combined with the belt's low combined mass, which is only about 4% of the mass of the Moon, do not support the hypothesis."