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It's just as likely that the Earth will perturb an object's course away from the moon as into it. Except if the object hits Earth itself, but the point is that
by vikingerik 5y ago
It's just as likely that the Earth will perturb an object's course away from the moon as into it. Except if the object hits Earth itself, but the point is that's a pretty small percentage of cases, the Earth occupies only a small portion of the moon's sky.
- cperciva 5y agoAre the probabilities equal? I agree that they're both possible, but I don't have any clear intuition for why they should be the same -- or which would be larger if they're not the same.