space might not cool it down because the only real way for it to lose the heat would be blackbody radiation. by now it’s probably cooled off but without any atmosphere or other materials to cool it off, it probably stayed hot for a while
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phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoWhat is irons vaporization temp? And wouldn’t space cool it down(and keep it somewhat together barring other gravitational objects affecting it.
erev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Iron goes molten at 2,800f. The air friction would have caused that long before getting to space. As for staying together and resolidifying in space…well imagine how well maple syrup would stay held together if you threw it out of a cup pretty hard. The iron would have went molten and just proceeded to “spatter” and not have any piece left heavy enough to keep up an escape velocity.