Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Technically the solar system is a multi-body system, and everything nudges everything else, but the mass of the earth is far greater than the mass of the asteroid, to the point that it doesn’t matter.