what will happen if human dead body left in space ?
2006-07-14 01:55:06 · 10 answers · asked by rekamtekda 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It will float around until it runs into something. In the shadows, it will be frozen, but preserved. If it floats towards a star (or starts to fall into something with a thick atmosphere) it will burn. There is no air to let it decompose however.
2006-07-14 01:59:38 · answer #1 · answered by travis_b7 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would more than likely just act like any other object in space - if put into orbit, it will travel at that 18,500 miles per hour or whatever rate that is. It's not like when there's a dead body in water and the density is eventually such that the body floats to the surface.
However, if you put a live body out there, say, by releasing it from a pressurized space shuttle, the pressure difference would cause that person to essentially explode because the body is used to having a certain amount of pressure on it that just isn't there in space.
So, if you did that to a dead body (release it from a pressurized space station or the like into deep space), it would also explode, I conjecture.
2006-07-14 02:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In deep space it will freeze solid.
If it is close enough to a sun it will become freeze dried - the heat from the sun will boil off all the volatiles.
Depending on the body's trajectory it may float in space for millions of years or it may collide with an asteroid, moon, star or planet.
2006-07-14 02:06:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the dead body is left in space ,first it starts floatin here and there...since there is no atmosphere the body gets compressed...for example if u place a glass in space after sometime it would melt and float... the same happens to the dead body also...
2006-07-14 02:33:05 · answer #4 · answered by keep smiling... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would float around and get real cold.
Human combustion is a myth. The pressure differences between a person at a normal atmosphere (1 ATA) and the relative vacuum of space isn't great enough to cause the famed "explosion"
2006-07-14 02:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by shinobisoulxxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so... We are the way we are because our skin is "breathing" (taking matters from the air). The when we die our skin stops doing that and so we rot... I think. So in space not only would the body not be breathing in the matters, that matter wouldn't even be there. But that's just a thought. I'm not in to science so don't take my word for it... it's just how I picture it =_=
2016-03-27 04:55:03 · answer #6 · answered by Laura 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing really. It would float around like all the other garbage the space station discards into space.
2006-07-14 02:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by miketorse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the other answers are interesting but i wonder if the bacteria already present in the body would cause it to rot or do those bacteria need oxygen to live ?
2006-07-14 02:03:04 · answer #8 · answered by Ivanhoe Fats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might orbit Sun, if too near, just burn up when nearing the star.
2006-07-14 03:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone died.
2006-07-14 01:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋