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Yeah, it's the low albedo that kills you. Something that large made of ice would probably be quite bright. Quick OOM calc: This thing has an area proportional
by lutorm 15y ago
Yeah, it's the low albedo that kills you. Something that large made of ice would probably be quite bright.
Quick OOM calc: This thing has an area proportional to the moon of (200m/1700km)^2. The moon has an albedo of ~0.12. An object with albedo 1 would thus have a brightness of ~1e-7 of the Moon's. The full Moon has a magnitude of -12.7, so such an object would have a magnitude of -12.7-2.5log10(1e-7), or about 4.8. That's clearly visible to the naked eye at a dark site, but not very impressive.