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Yet a formula that actually calculates the probability of impact is nowhere to be found in your response. You don’t consider mass, density, velocity, orbits, or
by randmeerkat 2y ago
Yet a formula that actually calculates the probability of impact is nowhere to be found in your response. You don’t consider mass, density, velocity, orbits, or anything else for that matter.
- ben_w 2y agoThe formula is an excercise for the reader, even if my audience was a 14 year old learning about this for the first time. As is figuring out why "mass" and "density" are unimportant. Might be a valuable lesson in "reading the question carefully" for them, though, as the scenario was: "That’s pretty close when your neighbor just exploded", which is why orbital mechanics can be disregarded in this instance.