Origin of Asteroids

I'd never heard of this "theory." Sounds very wrong to me, but then astrophysics is not my specialty.Anyone care to take it on?Here's the excerpt which inspired me, from In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
(7th Edition) by Dr. Walt Brown.:

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The Origin of Asteroids and Meteoroids
SUMMARY: The “fountains of the great deep” launched rocks as well as muddy water. As rocks moved farther from Earth, Earth’s gravity became less significant to them, and the gravity of nearby rocks became increasingly significant. Consequently, many rocks, assisted by their mutual gravity and surrounding clouds of water vapor, merged to become asteroids. Isolated rocks in space are meteoroids. Drag forces caused by water vapor and thrust forces produced by the radiometer effect concentrated asteroids in what is now the asteroid belt. The so-called mavericks of the solar system (asteroids, meteoroids, and comets) resulted from the same event.

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And here's the link: Page not found – Center for Scientific CreationA few Questions:
Q. Can water be used as a medium to propel rocks into space?
Q. Can the "radiometer effect" guide asteroids into stable orbit?
Q. Does Quartz melt at 1300 degrees Fahrenheit?
Q. Is a mechanical engineer qualified to discuss Astrophysics?My Answers: No, No, No, and No. But, as I say, this is not my field of expertise.db

Thanks Crash.That's an interesting bit of astro-trivia I'd never heard about but am happy to know.I'm sure MY mechanical engineer doesn't have the answer! One might say his theory is "all wet."

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Thanks for the prompt reply.I agree with your responses, of course, even the last one; to which I must say: My field is Life Science, my degree is Biology, but I'm a dangerously atheistic Bible Thumper.

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Guess I'm going to have to review the article now to see if our guy may have been referring to just that. But I don't believe he was. I got the distinct impression that he was talking about the temperature of fusion. I used to play with quartz powder, fusing it into globules for use in homemade jewelry so when I saw that temp. for the melting point of quartz I figured our guy for a crackpot.Later then.

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It would appear that I was correct. Here it is, copied and pasted:

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As explained in Figure 132, temperatures eventually reached 1,300F., sufficient to melt quartz and allow iron and nickel to settle downward and become concentrated in the pillar tips. (Quartz, the first major mineral in granite to melt, would dissolve or drip into the subterranean water.) A similar gravitational settling process concentrated iron and nickel in the Earth’s core. [See “Melting the Inner Earth” on page 357.]

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And this somehow happened under water?There is a page which supposedly explains how this happened. I'm not following the text very well, but the graphic is adequately revealing. How did he get these pictures, I wonder.Page not found – Center for Scientific Creationdb

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I have as yet been unable to find any data online regarding the physical specifications of the materials you mention. Could you direct me to a source of such (preferably online)?

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Do you think it's a spoof?

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It is very much like something I was taught in Bible College, only more highly developed and to a different end.What I was taught (re: an underground body of water) was in an attempt to explain how the earth could be uniformly warm. To wit: the water circulated from equator to poles and back. I recall wanting to see evidence of this circulatory system but then, it was presented as a speculation not as a scientific hypothesis. That makes it considerably different from what this fellow is trying to do.

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That link requires membership but thanks for trying.

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Thank you for that.

Hello Omnivorous one,I agree. We have seen this brand of misguided sincerity many times before in this forum.You introduce an interesting topic. Saw something on television recently which addressed the relationship between ocean temperature and hurricane strength. I don't know if the info is debatable but if it is, I would like to see a discussion of it.

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What a wonderfully poignant insight. I had not even considered the question of orbital mechanics.Correct me if I am wrong but couldn't he counter this argument by suggesting that those rocks which didn't meet the velocity requirements simply fell back to earth or became otherwise lost in space?

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