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Does an asteroid completing an orbit around the sun conserve energy?
Yes, everything obey the conservation of energy laws.
Can asteroids lose there orbit?
Yes, asteroids can lose their orbit due to various reasons such as gravitational interactions with other celestial bodies, impacts by other objects, or influences from the Yarkovsky effect (radiation-induced forces). In some cases, these factors can cause an asteroid to be ejected from its orbit entirely or sent on a new trajectory.
What is massive asteroid?
a rather large asteroid
How asteroid became a moon?
Asteroids can become moons through a process called capture, where a larger celestial body, like a planet, gravitationally attracts the asteroid, pulling it into orbit. This can occur when an asteroid passes close to a planet, losing some of its kinetic energy through gravitational interactions. Over time, if the conditions are right, the asteroid can become stable in orbit around the planet, effectively becoming a moon. This process can also involve collisions or interactions with other celestial bodies that alter the asteroid's trajectory.
What happends if a asteroid collides with an object?
The result wold depend on the energy created by the collision. In most cases both objects would shatter into pieces that would spin away in a variety of new directions. If the asteroid collides with a much bigger object (a planet) then it will create an impact crater in the planet and the asteroid and a bit of the planet's surface will melt.
An asteroid that is moving farther away from the sun is gaining what type of energy?
While getting farther from the Sun in its orbit, an asteroid (or other object) will gain potential energy, and lose kinetic energy.
Which asteroid, out of the two asteroids approaching the Earth at the same speed, possesses a greater amount of kinetic energy?
The asteroid with the greater mass will possess a greater amount of kinetic energy when approaching Earth at the same speed.
Does an asteroid completing an orbit around the sun conserve energy?
Yes, everything obey the conservation of energy laws.
Can an asteroid hit a moon?
yes but that would add energy to the moon's orbit
Does an asteroid belt have a source of energy?
Asteroid belts do not have a source of energy in the same way that planets or stars do. However, asteroids in the belt can gain energy from sunlight, which can cause them to rotate or move within the belt. Additionally, collisions between asteroids can also release energy.
Does a meteor give off its own energy?
No. An asteroid is just chunk of rock and metal in space. It does not release its own energy.
Why does a small asteroid make such a large impact on earths surface?
It's because of the asteroid's kinetic energy. Think of it like this. Even though an asteroid can be relatively small (10 meters across), it moves at an average speed of 25 kilometers per second, or about 15.5342798 miles per second. Now, that alone might not seem like much. However, once you calculate the kinetic energy, or the collision energy in this case, you'll see why. The "average" asteroid is about 10 km across with a mass of 1.47 x 10^21 kg. So, after figuring it's kinetic energy, (1/2)mv^2, we find it has a collision energy of 9.1875x10^27 joules, equal to 109,375,000,000,000 of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki.
Is the asteroid Ceres the largest asteroid?
That's right; Ceres is the largest asteroid.
Is a planetoid and asteroid or a comet?
asteroid
What is a sentence for the word asteroid?
The asteroid missed the Earth's atmosphere by inches.We will begin asteroid mining soon.
How might the occultation of a star by an asteroid tell us weather the asteroid has an atmosohere?
If there is an atmosphere, the light will gradually dim as the asteroid approaches the asteroid.
Can asteroids lose there orbit?
Yes, asteroids can lose their orbit due to various reasons such as gravitational interactions with other celestial bodies, impacts by other objects, or influences from the Yarkovsky effect (radiation-induced forces). In some cases, these factors can cause an asteroid to be ejected from its orbit entirely or sent on a new trajectory.
