the same size as the one that killed the dinosaurs. what would happen ?..
2007-01-04 10:09:28 · 12 answers · asked by Jerry 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Chixculub asteroid was about 10 km diameter. The sun is about 1,500,000 km diameter; that is 150,000 times the diameter, which equates volumetrically to
150,000 x 150,000 x 150,000
ie. 3.5 x 10^15 times the volume of the asteroid
about 3500 trillion times the volume.
The sun is probably about a third as dense as an asteroid, but that still makes it about:
a quadrillion times the mass of a 10km asteroid.
....like a fly hitting a battleship
trouble is, people don't quite realise how big the sun is:
Fact: the sun represents 999/1000 of the Solar System by mass. Everything else; planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteorites, accounts for one thousandth of the mass of the Solar System.
Fact: Of all the energy received by the Earth from the sun, 2 billion times that energy goes everywhere else.
Jeez, poor little Rita back a few answers ago (I hope she is small, otherwise she is very unkowledgeable) seems to think she would still have electricity if the sun went out. Wow!
2007-01-04 10:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by nick s 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A giant asteroid wouldnt do anythingi to the sun it would probaly burn within 100 miles before the sun
2007-01-04 10:14:11 · answer #2 · answered by jeff4life32 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a lot. The sun is so massive that it would swallow up an asteroid without much effect. The extreme temperature might vaporise the asteroid.
2007-01-04 10:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is an asteroid heading in the direction of us which would be so close that it will bypass under our verbal replace satellites, yet i don't think of that is going to take place until sometime around 2030. there is something up with the 12 months 2012 even with the shown fact that, numerous historical calendars mysteriously end there, so who's elementary with.
2016-12-15 15:49:40 · answer #4 · answered by hirschfeld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing the KT asteroid would be puny compared to the sun and it would be vaporized miles before getting to the surface of the sun.
2007-01-04 10:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by gerbil31603 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the whole planet Earth fell into the Sun, it would hardly burp.
2007-01-04 13:57:09 · answer #6 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be swallowed by the sun. The gravitational pull would literaly crush it and then the heat would transform it into plasma.
2007-01-04 10:17:56 · answer #7 · answered by Tex 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be like a piece of dust hitting you in the chest.
2007-01-04 10:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm..it couldnt hit the sun. it would burn up b4 it could happen cuz the sun is so hot
2007-01-04 11:10:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun would take 2 Tums and go to bed early, speaking of which................
2007-01-04 12:04:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋