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Some very low numbers indeed. But they're in interstellar space. I imagine high-energy collisions (with hydrogen atoms or loose protons) would be a more likely
by Filligree 7y ago
Some very low numbers indeed.
But they're in interstellar space. I imagine high-energy collisions (with hydrogen atoms or loose protons) would be a more likely cause of evaporation, and I don't know the numbers for that.
- jcims 7y agoIf there’s 1 atom per cubic cm in interstellar space, I’m finding it takes about half a million years to collide with a mole of hydrogen (at 17km/s)
- Jeff_Brown 7y agoGoogle says that's about a gram of hydrogen. Is that enough to destroy a craft? I have little intuition, but I imagine touching a gram of 55,000-degree (Farenheit) anything would be destructive. Will the craft be radiating heat away from itself?