Questions tagged [asteroid]
Questions about asteroids, bodies in the solar system smaller then planets which orbit the sun.
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Using asteroids as piggyback rides for scientific stations [duplicate]
Would it be possible to land and anchor scientific station on (or inside for additional protection) a larger asteroid that have elliptical orbit around the Sun?
The purpose of an asteroid would be ...
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Would deflecting 2024 yr4 have been the right choice had the impact been immanent?
I read the question about capturing it and had the same thoughts.Park it on the moon or in earths orbit.Sending an asteroid on a path that may very well affect another planet with inhabitants,not a ...
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Is it likely that independent asteroid deflection attempts would cancel each other?
In a scenario where:
Two nations that are not in diplomatic relations with each other, are both on the potential impact path of an asteroid.
Independently, each nation discovers the danger and plans ...
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Could India possibly deflect the asteroid 2024 YR4?
With India being the only country in the risk corridor of 2024 YR4 with a space program, does the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have the in-house technology to launch something similar to ...
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Would using an DART-style impactor to divert an asteroid headed for Earth result in ejecta that would trigger Kessler Syndrome?
I'd be interested in any studies that have investigated the probability of Kessler Syndrome being triggered as a side effect of using a DART-style impactor to redirect an Earth-bound asteroid.
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If we could mine asteroids, how would we get the stuff mined from said asteroid back to earth?
I was thinking of some contraption that would suck up the material from said asteroid and put it in some type of container thingy that would then be transported to a shuttle that would then get sent ...
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Could asteroid mining benefit human kind?
If we ever set out into space to mine stuff like asteroids, and utilized the resources from said asteroid, would we be a more advanced civilization (when I mean advanced I mean like building stuff ...
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How well can we predict asteroid impact location?
concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029
- wikipedia on 99942 Apophis
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Slowing down 16 Psyche using an enormous solar sail to reach the inner planets
I am writing a sci-fi story and would like my science as hard as possible.
I was thinking of using the solar sail as a kind of sea anchor. Slowing down, the asteroid would move down to the inner ...
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Could mirrors used in a Dyson Swarm be made from asteroids in the inner asteroid belt?
In this video from Kurzgesagt they said that one would need to disassemble a whole planet to build a Dyson swarm around the sun.
The video went on about mining Mercury and using the materials ...
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What is the prevalence of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in the asteroid belt and in comets?
As someone with a light background in controlled-environment agriculture, I'm familiar with the importance and use of N/P/K in growing useful plants. This got me thinking about how common these ...
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Are there occurrances of monel (nickel-copper) meteorite materials?
This question is prompted by a Space.com article on the metallic Psyche asteroid -
Wendy Caldwell, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, told
Space.com that some of her most promising ...
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Will Ataxite be the type of nickel-iron sought for asteroid mining?
The high value metals in meteorites and asteroids - mostly Platinum Group Metals - appear associated with the nickel content (The Occurrence of Platinum in Meteorites, F. G. Hawley,1939), ie the ...
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What could we produce with a space based industry?
The astroid belt is great place to start humanity’s journey through space. I want to know, what materials and items could be produced from asteroids. I’m mainly going to ask for useful items, such ...
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How much ice is there in the inner asteroid belt?
After asking this question (How long would it take before we use up all the ice in the asteroid belt?)I did some research to find out how much ice there is in the inner asteroid belt (Not the Kuiper ...
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