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Compare your mass and weight on Earth with your mass and weight on an asteroid which is much smaller than Earth?
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∙ 10y ago
My mass is always the same, no matter where I am or what I am doing.
My weight, however, depends on other masses in my environment.
You have said that the asteroid is much smaller than Earth, but you haven't
said a thing about its mass, which is roughly just as important as its size.
Most likely, I weigh much less there than I do on Earth, but I can't guarantee
that. If the asteroid has enough mass packed into that slender body, I could
easily wind up weighing more there than on Earth.
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∙ 10y ago
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoYour mass does not change. However, your weight will increase whenever the force of gravity increases and the reverse when gravity decreases.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoAn object from Earth would have the same mass, but a much smaller weight on an asteroid.
Weight depends on gravity, but mass doesn't.
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Is Ceres the biggest of an asteroid or a comet?
Ceres is smaller than any planet; even smaller than Pluto.
Why do cosmologists calculate these asteroid's orbits and compare such orbits with the earth's orbit?
So we can guess when a meteor might hit the Earth.
Can an asteroid destroy the earth?
No, an asteroid cannot destroy earth, but a large enough asteroid can have devastating effects on the life on Earth
The earth been destroyed by a asteroid?
No, if the Earth was destroyed by an asteroid we would not be living today.
Is the earth inside the asteroid belt?
Yes, the asteroid belt starts properly after the orbit of Mars.
Is an asteroid bigger or smaller than the Earth?
Asteroids are much smaller than Earth.
Is Ceres the biggest of an asteroid or a comet?
Ceres is smaller than any planet; even smaller than Pluto.
Where was the last asteroid hit on earth?
There was one significant asteroid impact in 1908 - the Tunguska event. It is possible that smaller asteroids hit Earth after that. There was a smaller asteroid/meteor impact more recently - the Chelyabinsk event in 2013.
Is an asteroid bigger than earth?
No. Asteroids are much smaller than Earth.
Will a asteroid ever hit the earth?
yes! it depend to gravitational pull and the weight of an asteroid
How does path of the asteroid compare to the path the earth travels?
It doesn't. In an estimated 23 years, a belt of asteroids will collide with the earth.
Why do cosmologists calculate these asteroid's orbits and compare such orbits with the earth's orbit?
So we can guess when a meteor might hit the Earth.
If an asteroid collides with Earth is it therefore a meteorite?
It is called an asteroid if it has more than about 10 meters diameter. Smaller objects are called meteorites.
How might the composition of the moon compare to that of the earth?
it is smaller
Is a asteroid smaller or bigger than earth?
Smaller. Something as big as the Earth would have so much gravity that it would probably have collided with something else and been eliminated
How does Ceres size compare to earth?
it is smaller than pluto.
How does the weight of an object on earth compare with it's weight on the moon?
On the Earth, the object weighs 6.04 times as much as its weight on the moon.
