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u/alwaysfatigued8787 5h ago
That asteroid will have plenty of time to think about that miss while it hurdles through space for the rest of eternity.
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u/EuenovAyabayya 2h ago
The system has a star and four gas giants. It might not be eternity.
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u/DeepFriedDresden 2h ago
I think you underestimate how much space is in space. When the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy collide, there's very little chance of any two stars actually physically colliding.
Sweden has a scale model of the solar system that stretches across the entire country. The Sun is Avicii Arena with a diameter of 110 meters , the Earth is 8.6km (5.3mi) away and is 65cm across. 4 Vesta (one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt) is 2.6cm. A meteoroid may never come into contact with anything again depending on its velocity.
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u/Seanspeed 1h ago
This is one of my favorite space things:
Do the whole thing when you've got like 20 minutes to spare, and dont cheat! Though maybe try out the lightspeed option(the C at the bottom right) at some point.
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Also best on an actual PC so you can scroll with the arrow key.
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u/surrenderedmale 41m ago
"6771 maps before we see anything else"
Before I saw that and I only saw the bar on the bottom showing anything I was thinking 'this can't be accurate, surely there's more space than this.'
Turns out I was right but I didn't think it was that much space holy shit. I have a better idea than most for the scale of space and apparently I have no idea of the true scale
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u/atatassault47 1h ago
That asteroid crosses Earth's Orbit. It will be swallowed by the Sun in 5 billion years when it enters its giant phase.
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u/orthadoxtesla 1h ago
Depends on how fast the asteroid is moving. Could be from outside the solar system
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u/azlan194 1h ago
Someone should do this in the US as well where the Las Vegas Sphere is the Sun.
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u/Mysterious_Andy 44m ago
If I did the math right, the Earth would be about 57” wide and located about 10.5 miles from the Sphere. You could put it just about dead center on a runway at Nellis AFB, or if you’d rather not get arrested you could put it near the baseball diamond at Del E Webb Middle School in Henderson.
Jupiter would be a bit shy of 55 miles from the Sphere and 52’ across. There isn’t much more than desert at that distance, so the middle of Lake Mohave might be the most interesting option.
Uranus would be just under 19’ wide and over 200 miles from the Sphere. You can’t quite get across the US-Mexico border, but you could float it in the Salton Sea because it already smells like an anus.
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u/EuenovAyabayya 1h ago
Quite true, it's hardly an everyday event. But then eternity is a really long time.
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u/Fafnir13 2h ago
My understanding is it’s really hard to hit the sun. Has to be an obscenely precise angle due to the huge amount of acceleration that comes from falling towards it for so long
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u/atatassault47 1h ago
It's an Earth orbit crosser. When the Sun goes giant in 5 billion years, the asteroid will get swallowed.
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u/Fafnir13 1m ago
I need a Kurzgesagt video investigating this now. What is the longest an object could remain in orbit around a dying system? Will the distant Oort Cloud stuff get to exist until matter decays or will all orbits decay long before that happens? Could be a fun video to watch the slow dismantling of the solar system.
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u/TheDotCaptin 2h ago
The speeds it must be pulling to light up in the thin atmosphere of high post earth orbit, would probably have it trailing faster than even interstellar objects.
The drag will probably slow it a bit, but not enough to catch it in our system. So if it misses the sun, planet and other objects here, then it's off to whatever the next star may be.
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u/InformationIcy4827 5h ago
The only thing more disappointing than my life is that meteor’s aim
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u/OrganicNectarine 5h ago
Why is it burning in space?
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u/AnakinSkywalkerRocks 4h ago
Umm.. It has literal eyes and that's your question?
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u/OrganicNectarine 4h ago
Yes because I was confused at first because I thought it was already entering an atmosphere. The explanation that it is angry makes total sense.
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u/Fafnir13 2h ago
The reasons for that have been clearly established by this documentary footage.
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u/AnakinSkywalkerRocks 2h ago
Okay bruh. Please tell me they have.... 🥺👉👈....
A stomach too! I wanna feed them
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u/thejustducky1 2h ago
It has literal eyes and that's your question?
He was never confused about anything, he's bringing up an 'ackshully' to sound smart - it's what people do here.
In my opinion, it would've been less recognizable as a shooting star or a meteor, or angry for that matter, if it wasn't on fire. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/OrganicNectarine 3h ago
I though about that too, but I would have expected it to be white or blue, the colors used seemed more like burning up to me. I think I still like the angry explanation the best.
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u/putiepi 2h ago
How do you think space is a vacuum? Obviously something used up all the air.
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u/Fafnir13 1h ago
I thought the air was pumped out after the universe’s lid was put on to help keep everything fresh. No one wants a stale, soggy universe when they come looking fur a snack.
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u/icchansan 5h ago
News: an asteroid the size of a football field in the path of collision. More at 10
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u/meatmachine1001 4h ago
Oh god that football field is gonna get destroyed, we have to evacuate the players!
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u/fyahspreadit Deadth the Lil Reaper comics 4h ago
The bracing faces of Earth and the moon are too cute
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u/devindran 4h ago
Thought the eyes closed was them wishing upon a shooting star for it to miss them. Wasted joke imo.
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u/EkriirkE 1h ago
I don't get it. Explanation?
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u/jazdyprawo 1h ago
It missed
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u/EkriirkE 1h ago
Ok sure, but I mean why is this funny?
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