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I'm by no means closer or educated enough on astrophysics or anything to do with space. Hence I have a very "commoner" question: - asteroids? Debris? It's ther
by drunx 11mo ago
I'm by no means closer or educated enough on astrophysics or anything to do with space. Hence I have a very "commoner" question:
- asteroids? Debris? It's there even any risk of anything significantly big to be damaged by something flying by?
"About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth’s atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface."
I assume a good old "Prius" might have opinions about such construction of it flies through it.
But I guess "space is big", risks are low?
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-facts/ https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-fa...
- porphyra 11mo agoThe solar array is 4 km by 4 km. The whole Earth, with its 6400 km radius, only gets hit by a Prius-sized asteroid once per year. So the risks are much lower. I guess the array may be hit by many micro-asteroids though, but it should be possible to engineer some level of tolerance for that.
- drunx 11mo agoYeah.. right after writing the comment I went on to get my frame of reference a bit adjusted about the sizes of everything...:) Risks are very small! So small that it's not even worth worrying about it too much. The whole cooling/heat transfer reality check is way more critical here than anything else indeed.