2006-08-17 09:24:33 · 6 answers · asked by lennier61 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Unlike what you see in the movies, the asteroids are not very close together. There are a lot of them (over 200,000!) but there is a lot of space in a ring over 275 million miles in radius. There is a lot of space between the asteroids, and the chances of anything hitting anything else are VERY slim. We have flung almost half a dozen spaceships through the Belt (almost literally flung with only minimal maneuvering, and then usually to get CLOSER to an asteroid to take a picture) and haven't hit anything yet!
It is quite flat, actually, but it would still take a lot of effort to "hop" over it, so we don't even try!
Hope this helps!
JIM
2006-08-17 10:02:52 · answer #1 · answered by jamiekyrin 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Drop a pebble (asteroid #a million) on your driveway as you placed off off for the era of city. After about 6 blocks, provide up and stick a pin in a tree trunk. The needle represents an section probe. bypass yet another 6 blocks and drop yet another pebble (asteroid #2) in the line. the area between the pebbles is about a scale distance between actual asteroids, in uncomplicated words decreased in length by technique of about a area of 10X. Now you recognize the way confusing it truly is to compare up with an asteroid (as in the journeys to Eros, Icarus, others) once you try. yet operating into small fragments is continually a possibility. Meteor storms are dirt from comet tails. those might want to be risky to something in area--ships, area stations, moon colonies, area matches.
2016-11-25 22:55:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The population of the asteroid belt, in terms of crud per cubic meter, is really quite sparse, and a spacecraft can travel through it with only a slight chance of bumping into something.
2006-08-17 09:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
the belt is just that, a belt. all the spaceships have to do is go over them. This is space we are talking about here. We can go around any object we want. It may take longer, but it is possible until the end of the universe.
2006-08-17 09:31:36 · answer #4 · answered by frisbee72001 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
They go around (over/under) it. Details below
2006-08-17 10:01:42 · answer #5 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
On charisma, I think.
2006-08-17 09:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Margaret L 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋