2006-12-06 10:25:25 · 16 answers · asked by keri.griffiths@btinternet.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The "asteroid belt" is not an object, it is a region of space. On a large enough asteroid, yes, you could land, but there would be no atmosphere and very little gravity.
2006-12-06 10:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by computerguy103 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can land on an asteroid in the asteroid belt, eg. Ceres, which is the biggest asteroid, but you cannot land on the asteroid belt as it doesn't really exist. It is just many asteroids together and from afar, they look like a large piece of belt.
2006-12-06 12:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by Kemmy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible to land on an asteroid IN the asteroid belt. Matter of fact, it's already been done. See this website for actual pics and the full story ==>http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/nearlanding_preview_010212.html
2006-12-06 10:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...The Asteroid belt is not a solid object,like a tarmac... It is made up of thousands of miniature planets (known as asteroids or planetoids), varying in size from smaller than a football, to a few thousand Km in diameter. They orbit the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. You could,however,land on a reasonably large asteroid. The gravity would be so low on most of these bodies that you'd have to be careful not to bounce right off again,once you had landed !
2006-12-06 10:33:26 · answer #4 · answered by Ricvee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no longer very possibly. you would be conscious that mars orbits in the comparable airplane as Earth, Venus, and all the different planets. which means it shaped as area of the spinning disk that made the image voltaic equipment. If it substitute into truly sent flying by employing some style of cataclysmic journey, the probabilities of it completing in the comparable airplane as each little thing else are almost 0. you additionally can discover that it has a distinctive chemical composition to the asteroids; i do no longer understand if that's real off the precise of my head. It easily has an exceedingly distinctive composition to Jupiter's moons (that are broadly speaking produced from ice)
2016-12-18 08:50:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the astroid belt is not a solid... its an area. Thats kind like asking if you can land on the milky way. I guess something could land on an asteroid thats in the astroid belt... but even then not really
2006-12-06 10:29:02 · answer #6 · answered by politeplayer12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NEAR creaft (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) already touched down on the asteroid Eros. It "crashed" but the gravity was so small that itt set down gently.
2006-12-06 11:06:59 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. if you land on one individual asteroid, it is so. they actually plan on landing an explorer like craft on an asteroid to investigate some time in the future.
2006-12-06 10:27:48 · answer #8 · answered by Bandit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can land on an asteroid, NASA did that recently, I think the Japanese have done it twice.
2006-12-06 14:24:07 · answer #9 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft has!!!
2006-12-06 14:05:39 · answer #10 · answered by Paul L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋