Tag: asteroids

50 What would be used for "coordinates" on a large asteroid? 2018-11-30T00:33:50.560

29 5km artificial planet, with same gravity as on Earth 2018-07-04T17:31:04.250

22 Extremely small planet to live on 2017-02-17T12:41:41.477

20 What would cause the land to "rise" in a future, post-apocalyptic world? 2017-01-05T13:16:14.687

17 How difficult would it be to turn the Asteroid Belt into a single body? What's the best method? 2019-01-24T19:05:47.450

16 Humanity’s first effort at moving a planet 2017-05-08T04:38:07.143

15 Asteroid impact. How big does it have to be to globally affect plate tectonics? 2014-10-17T19:25:08.710

14 Geological aftereffects of an asteroid impact on a large mountain range? 2019-05-26T17:53:58.717

12 What is the smallest planetary mass that can prevent 'me' from flying off into space? 2016-12-17T02:26:33.330

12 Would an asteroid of similar size to the one that hit 65 million years ago cause humans to go extinct? 2017-10-20T17:17:58.583

11 Could an object from space crash into Earth and set off a majority of the nuclear bombs created? 2018-06-20T02:54:23.407

11 What would be the effect(s) of this asteroid? 2019-12-19T17:55:35.380

10 Could I use a series of magnetic asteroids to create a magnetic field for mars? 2018-08-31T23:27:15.720

9 Could you turn the asteroid belt into one giant full spectrum interferometer? 2017-12-06T17:08:38.280

9 Astronomical event that creates meteoroids/asteroids on a collision course with Earth? 2018-06-14T02:31:35.483

9 Could an astronaut in a near-future space ship survive transit through our asteroid belt? 2018-09-01T19:07:32.083

9 Is it possible to make Asteroid Concrete? 2019-02-15T16:26:23.890

9 How big could a meteor crater be without causing significant secondary effects? 2019-11-18T14:03:32.940

8 What happens to the leftovers from asteroid mining? 2017-04-09T15:58:58.280

8 Gravity differences on asteroid with an O'Neill cylinder 2018-09-26T03:32:53.470

8 What is our planetary defense capability against an Earth life destroying object? 2018-10-02T20:58:01.793

8 Can a 15km, rapidly-spining asteroid go undiscovered until the asteroid belt is being actively explored? 2018-11-11T03:54:27.087

8 How can an individual with Superman like powers best harvest asteroids? 2019-01-23T22:21:27.060

8 How can I make a dense asteroid field? 2019-03-11T04:15:51.647

8 What would an asteroid impact feel like to someone standing on the moon? 2019-10-21T18:00:04.493

7 What issues would an AI asteroid mining stations have to be prepared for? 2017-01-03T23:41:25.100

7 Is it possible to hide a base in the Kuiper Belt? 2019-01-05T18:42:38.890

7 Could a route among the asteroids be built to reach Jupiter's moons once the technology to reach and set up a base in Mars is ready? 2019-02-19T21:27:51.347

7 Rare Earth Elements in the outer solar system 2019-09-15T19:56:29.640

7 What order of magnitude incoming asteroid could we, in fact, deflect? 2019-10-20T14:51:19.343

6 Moving asteroids into a planet's orbit to increase rotation to produce a magnetic field 2017-01-29T15:14:18.587

6 Is it easier to mine asteroids than planets if teleportation technology exists? 2018-07-16T16:02:54.897

5 Life on planet regularly hit with meteorites 2017-03-23T01:39:55.627

5 Would Vesta Be A Suitable Spot For Colonization 2018-04-17T15:17:50.427

5 How could someone ground a breathable synthetic atmosphere onto a small asteroid? 2018-10-29T18:49:58.427

5 "Landing" a small asteroid on Earth 2019-02-05T10:24:04.977

5 What's the biggest, most spectacular asteroid collision the moon could save us from? 2019-02-11T21:24:08.260

5 Using an Asteroid's Momentum for Spaceship Propulsion 2019-07-28T15:05:47.130

4 Resources to possess, and restrict in asteroid belt 2016-12-17T00:57:33.893

4 Would a sun-blocking asteriod field be created if something big was to smash into the moon? 2018-06-08T16:56:34.427

4 What would happen if a little less than half of the moon crashed into the Atlantic ocean? 2018-09-23T19:01:37.147

4 Cataclysmic cloud of asteroid bits 2018-10-04T14:29:56.150

4 Could you liquefy an asteroid to collect its resources? 2018-11-01T15:43:11.097

4 How much heat would a 1km asteroid release into earth's atmosphere? 2019-01-09T01:58:25.337

4 What sort of atmosphere would develop around an asteroid colony? 2019-05-03T13:23:42.360

4 Asteroid in the asteroid belt suddenly gains the gravity of the earth 2019-05-26T21:46:36.990

3 Using Mars as a waystation for asteroid mining 2016-10-09T04:17:23.890

3 How to explain Earth-like gravity in small asteroids? 2016-12-29T11:46:38.453

3 What happens to asteroids when heated into a plasma? 2017-08-13T20:38:52.420

3 Could a giant asteroid impact break off to form a new, habitable moon while leaving the original planet in ruins? 2018-02-13T05:35:33.777

3 Could a collision of a rogue asteroid with Pluto pull in objects from Kuiper's belt into the inner orbit without destabilizing any other Planets? 2018-06-15T02:07:20.603

3 A meteorite is about to ram into a planet. How long do the main characters have to leave the planet before they die? 2018-09-14T19:59:50.047

3 Could a ~150 mile impact basin form from a small object imact? 2019-01-07T03:15:51.557

2 What would happen to an asteroid if we somehow increased gravity on it? 2016-09-13T19:52:31.123

2 What direction is my asteroid coming from? 2016-11-06T22:53:08.640

2 Impacting an Asteroid into the South Pole 2016-11-19T21:05:48.757

2 Asteroid making a hole through the crust 2017-03-23T15:56:12.310

2 High-Altitude Asteroid Impact 2019-02-21T01:35:58.207

2 How big would an asteroid have to be to destroy 99.9% of the human population? How would the remaining survive? 2019-09-17T04:02:26.313

2 Is it possible for a large planetary body to embed itself onto the Earth? 2019-10-26T11:47:06.033

2 Logistics of how to mine an asteroid 2020-01-07T19:47:35.513

1 Measurements of an asteroid replacement 2017-03-22T19:34:59.853

1 How to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth without nukes? 2017-06-15T10:21:27.523

1 Which asteroids are likely targets for a mining base? 2017-08-13T09:41:46.410

1 Can the pitch and speed of an asteroid cause a less catastrophic results? 2018-01-21T18:34:50.537

1 Building a Dyson Array as an energy source 2018-12-10T11:50:21.180

1 Is it possible to divert a 1km Asteroid from Earth? 2019-01-08T01:07:58.410

1 Asteroids with an atmosphere 2019-02-18T07:40:42.943

1 Can we move the moon to use as a shield? 2019-08-01T21:10:27.873

0 What are some of the resources a space station could produce? 2017-09-11T18:50:13.680

0 Can ice asteroids cause an icy ship 2018-02-01T13:40:08.397

0 Do different angles of strike affect the destructive power of an asteroid? 2018-02-04T20:08:48.273

0 How big of an asteroid could all the nuclear bombs of the world move? 2018-02-13T18:50:11.307

0 Conditional deniability of a natural asteroid belt with an atmosphere? 2018-07-31T21:49:24.517

0 How much colder would that asteroid make my planet? 2019-03-30T04:08:32.010

-1 What would be an approximate chance of human extinction from an asteroid crash 2017-11-06T18:45:53.000

-1 What would be the effect(s) of high-speed plasma impacting a planet? 2019-12-20T14:33:15.370

-3 The speed and mass of this asteroid 2017-03-23T19:09:12.717