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I wonder what sort of instruments could get a better measurement of that object’s weight without being just a probe to it? I’m guessing we’d need to get lucky f
by ianai 3y ago
I wonder what sort of instruments could get a better measurement of that object’s weight without being just a probe to it? I’m guessing we’d need to get lucky for it to be bright enough and located right to be resolvable by JWST. Or would sending something to it be the cheaper option.
Sure wish we had many more telescopes and instruments spread throughout the solar system.
- simne 3y agoThis is high school task, to measure "density of infinite layer of material" by measure its gravitational attractive force. One don't need to touch material, but need to hang close to it and measure acceleration with some conventional instrument (for asteroid distance will be about few meters and acceleration around millimeters/s^2). Most known appearance in Clarke Odyssey 2001.