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Very little junk, but _loads of stuff_ in solar orbit in the form of the asteroid belt, the jupiter greeks/trojans and the hildas, the kuyper belt, and the oort
by TheRealPomax 9y ago
Very little junk, but _loads of stuff_ in solar orbit in the form of the asteroid belt, the jupiter greeks/trojans and the hildas, the kuyper belt, and the oort cloud.
There is so much there.
- Sharlin 9y agoFor extremely low values of ”so much”.
- kybernetikos 9y agoMaybe, but on the other hand, I expect you've hardly ever used 'so much' to refer to more - since a small fraction of that 'so much' includes Earth and everything on it. As with everything, it depends on what your comparisons are to.
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- ars 9y agoIt's hard to really wrap your mind how BIG it is there. Those things you mention? They take up so little space they wouldn't even count if not for the fact there's nothing else. Space is REALLY big, and REALLY empty.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoit's really empty unless you need to compute gravitational deviation over the course of decades. Then it's suddenly bloody full.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoGravity obeys inverse square law, so no, all that small stuff doesn't count on timescales of decades.