Questions tagged [asteroids]
This is a tag for asteroids, not dwarf planets or any other astronomical object.
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Calculating asteroid impact blast wave properties
One of the biggest arguments against large nuclear devices is that most of the energy escapes into space. My limited understanding is that this happens because when the shockwave is still in the ...
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Will a nuclear blast just above the surface of an asteroid push it, or just heat it and maybe produce outgassing?
Will a nuclear blast just above the surface of an asteroid push/nudge it, or just heat it and maybe produce outgassing? In other words, would nukes be actually useful to deflect asteroids?
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Would it be possible to build a device or structure that could absorb the impact of an asteroid?
This is probably a stupid question but as the title says would this be possible. I'm imagining some kind of large structure which absorbs the impact rather than deflects it and then, a step further ...
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Unruh Radiation from hovering?
I know that masses on their own don't produce Unruh radiation outside of black holes which produce a similar effect known as Hawking radiation. However, what if some observer hovers above the Earth ...
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How can one predict asteroid orbit, with the use of vector calculus?
If you are given, (or found) the position and velocity vectors of an asteroid how can one use this to predict its orbit?
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How do rubble pile asteroids form?
This Dr. Becky video describes the early history of the solar system. Why the Earth exists because of Saturn | Migration of Planets.
In it she talks about how a cloud of nanometer to centimeter sized ...
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Where on the orbit of 101955 Bennu would an impact deflection mission have the most chance of success
Asteroid Bennu has a slight change of impact with Earth in the year 2135 (or 2182) and thus is a prime candidate for a future deflection mission using an impact spacecraft.
Given that the orbit of ...
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