Space Topic, Asteroids

"Space is made in a Hollywood basement"

RHCP

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Its just leftover space dust from when stars are formed. Over long periods of time, that dust collides and clings together and may grow large enough to form planets. Asteroids are made of the same stuff, but just never grew large enough to become a planet

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aren't you a geologist? I feel like you should be able to work this out.

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Yes I am. But rocks on earth are very much a product of processes on earth. "Rocks" in asteroids are very much not from processes on earth. So are the rocks in asteroids even like the rocks on earth? I don't have a clue. But rocks aren't formed in stars to my knowledge. So I'm reaching out to the physics and astronomy types for clarification. I do know (they tell us) the universe is 13 and a half billion years old. So a lot of stuff could have formed and died to get to where we are now. So it is possible that asteroids can be the product of planets past that were destroyed. But at my age and with my limited desire to research this topic beyond Google AI, I don't know.

I feel like the periodic table of elements should be posted in here.

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Its just leftover space dust from when stars are formed.

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My last comment I promise. Any space dust out there that formed asteroids had to be formed by next generation stars that exploded billions of years after the universe formed. There was no dust in the early universe. It was hydrogen almost exclusively. At least that's what I'm going with until a OT astrophysicist says different.

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Where did these rocks come from?

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First you make a cosmic roux.

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Everything came from a single point in space time. Every particle that makes up existence was and still is. The big bang occurred and transformed infinte amount of potential energy to every form of energy that has ever existed or will ever exist.

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It was protons and neutrons etc at the Big Bang. Elements hydrogen, helium were primordial. Elements beyond that were fused in stars. I've read quick notes that primordial lithium and beryllium may have existed. So most of the periodic chart came later. But yeah, from the same set of nuclear particles at the Big Bang.

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So essentially we are of the same stuff as everything else. The atoms that literally make you up have been part of a river stream, a mountain, dinosaurs, archeobacteria, stars, comets, and everything else

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Yes, we are made of elements that were fused in stars long since destroyed. (I won't get into religion here)

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Your body temperature is leftover energy from the most cataclysmic event that we can wrap our human minds around.

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My body temperature is from the burning or consumption of food to produce that energy. But when I die, I assume the temperature of the surface of the earth.

I still don't know if the rocks in asteroids are the same as rocks on earth. Intuitively they likely are. But they must have been generated by rocky planets. So I guess I'm saying they could have been formed in an earth or mars that existed and was destroyed by a sun that formed and then dies explosively.

This is elementary stuff. I'm sure an astrophysicist would laugh at my musings.

how can you be a geologist and not understand the basics of matter in its various states? Seriously how is this possible?