The Buddiest Of Boys

if Alberino's theory of the destruction of [Planet 5] is correct, that it was a divine judgement in the prehuman angelic war in heaven, then my next question is: how would it have happened? i see three possibilities. Option 1, something technological, like superman's krypton, a massive nuclear fusion or antimatter explosion of some sort, or something else we could only guess at. Option 2, a direct exercise of divine power. "Let it be so" and it was so. Kaboom. Option 3, cosmic impact. Simple kinetic energy. An asteroid or planetoid. If we go with option 3, then the physics of it can be speculated. The article cited on wikipedia says that the initial mass of the asteroid belt's formation could be about 1 Earth. Supposing it to be habitable, the planet should be similar size and mass. Then the impacting object could be fairly large, but probably less than the target. But there would be a minimum mass for the massive energy required to destroy the target, too small and the necessary velocity starts approaching the speed of light. But the nature of speed implies time and distance. Suppose this method was the one used. At what point was the projectile set in motion? Short notice, point blank? Before the rebellion it was used to vanquish? At the creation of the universe? How far away was it? In the cosmic dance of the heavenly bodies, was the unknown instrument of satan's defeat an ever present doom racing nearer across the vastness of space even as he waged his war? Did it slingshot around planets and stars, gaining deadly velocity as it went?