Subject: Was the astreoid belt formed from a object orbiting too close to Mars?

I have read one of the answers give by your staff, or you, as to why you 
thought the asteroid belt could not be a former planet. MY theory has been 
similar to those presented before me. I have long wondered if the asteroid 
belt could have been abody revolving arround the planet Mars in an 
eliptical orbit that may have been drawn too close to maintain stability 
and was thus ripped apart. As the mass of the belt is too small to be a 
planet, how about a moon? Could this moon be torn apart by gravitational 
forces by getting too close and thus interacted with the Martian atmosphere 
thus also destroying that also?

Re: Was the astreoid belt formed from a object orbiting too close to Mars?