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14 years 3 months ago #86823
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News story here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11534216
It is not often you get to see such news regarding asteroidal impacts, which I think is strange when you think about how many of them are out there.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11534216
It is not often you get to see such news regarding asteroidal impacts, which I think is strange when you think about how many of them are out there.
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14 years 3 months ago #86829
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Replied by stepryan on topic Re:Asteroid collision aftermath caught by spacecraft
shows how big space is, they're probably a million miles apart so the odds must be pretty low on that front.
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stepryan wrote:
Well, not really in the asteroid belt, surely...
shows how big space is, they're probably a million miles apart so the odds must be pretty low on that front.
Well, not really in the asteroid belt, surely...
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14 years 3 months ago #86852
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Seanie_Morris wrote:
if you look at the link below to the article in scientific american it suggest 5 million kilometres on average. there maybe be millions of them but the volume of space they occupy is also very large. from reading the asteriod belt probably makes up about 4% of the moon. spread tha over a couple of hundred cublic miles of space and you'd have to go out of your way to collide with one.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?i...ience-fiction-movies
stepryan wrote:
shows how big space is, they're probably a million miles apart so the odds must be pretty low on that front.
Well, not really in the asteroid belt, surely...
if you look at the link below to the article in scientific american it suggest 5 million kilometres on average. there maybe be millions of them but the volume of space they occupy is also very large. from reading the asteriod belt probably makes up about 4% of the moon. spread tha over a couple of hundred cublic miles of space and you'd have to go out of your way to collide with one.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?i...ience-fiction-movies
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Thanks for that Stephen, I would have thought a little closer of the order of hundreds of thousands of miles for some, not 5 million.
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14 years 3 months ago #86858
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well, its commonly known that if you were standing on an asteroid in the belt, you'd still need a telescope to see the nearest asteroids.
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