2007-06-26 03:38:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The massive gravitational pull of Jupiter keeps the asteroids in their orbits, indeed within their regions of the Belt, which respect the Kirkwood Gaps caused by Jupiter.
You would be wrong if you thought that if this all went wrong, it would be Earth that would get it in the neck.
The asteroids would come across Mars first, and secondly the entire asteroid belt, is between it only as massive as 4% of the Moon. The Moon getting unhinged would be a far more serious prospect to worry about. Its much more massive and much nearer!
2007-06-26 03:57:45 · answer #1 · answered by crabapples 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not the entire asteroid belt, but if something quite large comes crashing through the asteroid belt, some asteroids could come crashing down on us...
2007-06-29 18:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 0. More exactly, about the same as winning the lottery, 10 times in a row.
2007-06-26 11:04:25 · answer #3 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a chance, once in a while one may be bumped out of it's orbit and wander close to Earth.
2007-06-26 10:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I know it has not for 76 years why should I think it will change.
2007-06-26 11:36:04 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋