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You can reduce its momentum by slowing it down. Fragmenting it - by blowing it up will not reduce the total momentum. However, the effect of each individual piece will be reduced.
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What lies between mars and jupiter-?
Main asteroid beltThe asteroid belt
How do you use the word asteroid in a sentence?
the asteroid raced across from Mars to Jupiter
What is the name of the asteroid that had its own moon?
The first confirmed case of an asteroid orbiting another asteroid is the asteroid Ida which is orbited by a smaller asteroid orbiting it called Dactyl; other asteroid moons have been found since.
Use asteroid in a sentence?
It is amazing to be able to see an asteroid in a telescope.
What is the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
The asteroid belt is in between Mars and Jupiter.
How does a asteroid move through space?
momentum
How does the asteroid belt stay together and orbit the sun?
An asteroid orbits the sun for the same reason that a planet does; it has angular momentum. Asteroids generally remain in the asteroid belt because that is the orbit which their momentum gives them; if they had more momentum they would orbit farther from the sun, and if they had less momentum they would orbit closer to the sun (or fall into the sun, if their angular momentum were sufficiently low).
Does every transfer decrease momentum?
No. Total momentum always remains constant. Therefore, if the momentum of one object decreases, the momentum of another must needs increase.
If you drop a suitcase out of a car what happens to the cars momentum?
If you drop a suitcase out of a moving car, the momentum of the car will decrease as there will be less mass, therefore less momentum. :)
What concept would you use to describe the asteroid's motion?
There's gravity, momentum, centripetal force, and friction involved.
What happens to the momentum of a body acted on by an external force?
If the force opposes the motion, it will reduce the velocity and the momentum of the body will decrease. If the force is in the direction of the motion, the velocity will increase and the momentum will increase.
How does friction affect interia?
Friction does not affect inertia, but it affects momentum. Momentum is the product of the mass of an object and its speed. Friction forces, if present, will always act to decrease the momentum of a moving object.
Object A strikes object B the momentum of object B increase what happens to the momentum of object A?
You can't think of momentum as simply "increasing" and "decreasing" - you have to consider momentum as a vector.If in a collision one object's momentum changes by a certain amount, call it "a", the momentum of the other object will change by the opposite amount, "-a" - both "a" and "-a" are vectors that add up to zero. If you consider only the magnitudes of the momentum, by conservation of energy the momenta can't both increase - but they can certainly both decrease, when objects collide head-on.
Why does velocity stay constant with decreasing momentum?
As far as we can tell, it doesn't. Momentum is defined as (mass) times (velocity). There appear to be only two ways in which momentum can decrease: either the mass has to magically evaporate, or else the velocity has to decrease. Since mass conservation is a nearly fundamental law of nature, that leaves us with velocity as the only way to change the momentum of a moving body.
How does the height of pendulum affect momentum of the lump of clay?
As the length of a pendulum increase the time period increases whereby its speed decreases and thus the momentum decrease.
Why Momentum is conserve yet most moving objects eventually slow down and stop?
Because when we study physics, we mostly stuffy it in ideal surroundings where there is no friction, but in real life, there is friction, so the speed of the object will decrease as it travels along its trajectory, and since MOMENTUM = Velocity x Mass The momentum will also decrease
How close does an asteroid have to be to Earth to fall into our planet?
Its not only a question of distance but a question of speed too. The Momentum of the asteroid is the right parameter to calculate before deciding if earth's gravity will pull it away from its trajectory (unless coming directly towards us) and make it plunge towards us.Thus we need these parameters before answering this question: 1-Speed of the asteroid 2-Mass of the asteroid ( momentum = Mass X Speed) (Gravitational force = Mass X g) 3- Direction of the asteroid 4-The least important is the distance from earth. To simplify all, it's not so direct as you think.
