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Wikipedia puts the average distance between 'roids at about 600,000 miles, so I'm going with no. Also mentioned is the estimate that the mass of the entire belt
by dpedu 2y ago
Wikipedia puts the average distance between 'roids at about 600,000 miles, so I'm going with no. Also mentioned is the estimate that the mass of the entire belt is thought to be 3% of weight of the moon. That's crazy tiny, considering how much space it is spread out over.
It would been like seeing an object 1/3000 the size of our moon at twice the distance away.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>Also mentioned is the estimate that the mass of the entire belt is thought to be 3% of weight of the moon. That's crazy tiny It's worse than that: 60% of that mass is contained in only 4 asteroids, the largest of which is the dwarf planet Ceres. So if you ignore those 4 bodies for a moment, the rest of the asteroids are only around 1.2% of the Moon's mass.
- mandevil 2y agoI remember doing the math once years ago and if you presume that all of the asteroids are pure Fe, you have on the order of 100 atoms/m^3 of density in the "asteroid belt."