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It's a 60 meter big rock. Any debris it can dislodge from the moon will be substantially smaller.
by BurningFrog 2y ago
It's a 60 meter big rock.
Any debris it can dislodge from the moon will be substantially smaller.
- ryandrake 2y agoAnd even if it was bigger, and it dislodged bigger rocks, these rocks would basically stay in the same orbit around the Earth as the moon is. The extreme amount of dV it would take to escape the moon’s existing orbit in the right direction so as to fall anywhere near the Earth makes this scenario improbable. I believe (don’t quote me) that we are talking on the order of 10km/s.
- mirekrusin 2y agoIs this true though? It could dislodge larger rocks with smaller velocity, right?