Evidently asteroids are fragile too.
And if an asteroid hit the earth (not the other way around), are they saying the earth is stationary in space?
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are they saying the earth is stationary in space?
Yes. Of Course. What else?
I mean, come on, we all know that in traffic accidents, one of the cars is always standing still. Like duh.
>And if an asteroid hit the earth (not the other way around)
Do wat now? There is no other way around. The object with the most mass, exerts gravitational influence on the less massive one that gets too close. The asteroid would be captured by the Earth and pulled inward. The asteroid could never exert enough gravitational influence to pull the Earth out of it's orbit, however the impact could, and almost certainly would alter the Earth's orbit ever so slightly.
>are they saying the earth is stationary in space?
Are you saying that you have difficulty visualizing a moving object hitting another moving object? No the Earth is not stationary. In fact nothing is. The entire Universe, and everything within it are moving in some manner or another.
Evidently asteroids are fragile too.
Some are.
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Rubble pile asteroids, as their name suggests, are composed of a collection of smaller pieces which are loosely bound together by gravity. An example of this is the above asteroid, 25143 Itokawa.
Also, the Earth's atmosphere stops space rocks all the time. Stoney-iron, stoney, or iron, it doesn't really matter. As long as the object is below a certain mass it will probably be stopped. Otherwise it will go splat on the ground and leave a crater,
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sometimes with large pieces surviving.
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And if an asteroid hit the earth (not the other way around), are they saying the earth is stationary in space?
It's like he's never heard of reference frames.
Some asteroids burn up in the atmosphere, it's true. It doesn't take that much friction to do, honestly.
And...I'm guessing if I use the word "relativity," it won't go well on this particular board...
Asteroids may not be fragile, but in an impact with a much larger body (like Earth), you would expect them to come off rather badly. Is a brick wall fragile? Clearly not. But if you run into it with a tank, you'd expect it to come down with relative ease.
In the long run, everything is fragile.
No, Earth isn't stationary just because another object collided with it, nimrod! You really can't grasp the concept of two moving objects colliding?!
Obviously Physics was your best subject @ school. ~/ Moving objects do collide, including in space.
I'm surprised you don't believe the Earth is flat.
Ok, let's say 2 cars are moving and one t-bones the other. In your screwy understanding of motion and collisions, how does that work, and who hit who? Was one somehow stationary despite being in motion relative to the other?
How does someone get by without basic reasoning?
Look, just because you are such an impossibly fucking stupid driver that every car crash you've been in involved you hitting a parked car, that doesn't mean everything else that hits something else involves a stationary object. Things in motion tend to hit other things in motion when they get too close to each other, it happens. Sometimes deliberately. Have you not heard of Patriot missiles, perhaps, designed to shoot down planes and less so ballistic missiles? They don't fucking set up walls in mid-air for the planes/missiles to crash into, is what I'm getting at.
"And if an asteroid hit the earth (not the other way around), are they saying the earth is stationary in space?"
Somewhere, AV1611VET, Newton and Einstein are both pointing at you and laughing*.
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
*)And they are not the only ones....
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