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Two many to count, the Earth was born from asteroid impacts. Try and imagine all the fine grains of sand and all the wondrous mountains of the Earth. All the water of the oceans. All of it came from asteroid hits during accretion and afterwords.
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Is the moon closer to the earth than the asteroid belt?
By far yes.
How many nuclear warheads would it take to prevent a large asteroid from hitting the earth?
It depends completely on how large the asteroid is, how far away it is, and how effectively you want it destroyed (vaporised, knocked off course or broken into manageable chunks).
When is the next asteroid going to orbit earth?
Well some people say that the world might end in 2039 by an asteroid called apophis. If it hits in the Pacific Ocean then there will be monsunes that are up to 52 feet tall and will flood Hawaii, California, through Alaska. If the asteroid hits the Atlantic Ocean then the lands that are close to the alantic ocean are going to be flooded.
What keeps us from getting pelted by asteroids all of the time?
Most asteroids orbit the sun in the asteroid belt, which is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They are, therefore, far away from Earth, many millions of miles, and their orbits are not going to intersect the orbit of Earth. If a Asteroid Dose come to earth, Earth's Force Field will destory it before it hits land.
Is the Moon's on the asteroid belt?
Earth’s Moon is far from the Astroid belt. However, the main belt astroid Ida has its own moon called Dactyl.
What would happen if an asteroid on a collision course with Earth would get blown up in outer space?
It is FAR easier to change the direction of an asteroid than to blow it up. All that is needed to accomplish the former is to nudge the asteroid a little off its collision course with Earth, and this could be done with some small explosions on the side of that asteroid. Blowing up an asteroid would be a complete waste of energy.
Was the moon always in the earths orbit?
Many scientists do not believe so.Back when the Earth was cooling down and becoming a solid mass without scorching lava and burning temperatures, an asteroid was thought to hit the premature Earth. The asteroid became part of the Earth, and the material that was ejected from Earth formed its own mass, the Moon. The Moon became a mass and started orbiting the Earth, since the ejected material was not very far away from Earth.Thus, in Earth's early days, it did not have a moon.
What are the far lands in minecraft?
go to minecraftwiki.net and search far lands
How long would it take an asteroid to hit the sun?
It would depend entirely on how far away the asteroid was from the sun. Furthermore, which sun are you referring to? There are many suns in the solar system.
How far away is the inner asteroid belt from the sun?
It is not that far away. The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is the gravity pull of the earth on a asteroid?
Most asteroids are located in the asteroid belt, which is so far away from the Earththat they do not experience any measurable gravitational pull from Earth. If anasteroid approaches the Earth, however, then it will experience quite a substantialgravitational pull. Asteroids can weigh thousands or even millions of tons.====================================Answer #2:There can never be any single answer to that question. Just like any otherobject, of course, the gravitational force between the Earth and an asteroiddepends on the mass of the asteroid, and on how far it happens to be fromEarth at the moment.Here is a sample, 'back-of-the-bar-napkin' calculation:-- Assume that the asteroid has a mass that would weigh 1 million tons on Earth.-- Assume that the asteroid is only 10,000 miles outside the orbit of Mars.So, as the Earth and the asteroid both go round and round the sun in theirrespective paths, the closest they can ever get to one another is about33.9 million miles.-- When the asteroid is on the surface of the Earth ... 3,959 miles from the center ...it weighs 1 million tons. Its weight when it's 33.9 million miles away is just 1 million tonstimes the square of the inverse ratio of those distances.(1 million tons) x ( 3,959/33.9 million)2 = 18.35 tonsThat's the Earth's pull on the asteroid, and the asteroid's pull on the Earth,when they're as close together as they can ever be.Mars, being so much closer, and Jupiter, being so much more massive than theEarth, have that much greater gravitational interaction with the asteroid, andpotentially big effects on the shape of its orbit. The problem with that is thatthey may nudge the asteroid into an orbit with a shape that could eventuallycoincide with where the Earth is that day, and could wipe out the remainingdinosaurs.
How far are meteorites from the sun?
They are about 93 million miles from the Sun. That's how far the Earth is from the Sun and they are all here on the Earth. You see, a "meteorite" is defined as a "meteoroid" that's landed on Earth from space. You probably meant "meteoroid". These are closely associated with the asteroid belt, but their distances from the Sun vary a lot.
