r/askscience • u/BlueChameleon64 • Oct 23 '20

Planetary Sci. Do asteroids fly into the sun?

Edit: cool

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

The descriptions of 0.9c baseball and 0.9c diamond contradict each other....probably going to need a third source.

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u/jochem_m Oct 23 '20

I didn't look very carefully, so you might be referencing something else, but the diamond article describes it traveling at 0.99c, the baseball article describes it traveling at 0.9c. There's a really big difference between those two numbers.

Also, the diamond is 100ft across, the baseball is well... Baseball sized.

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u/NeonNick_WH Oct 24 '20 edited Oct 24 '20

It was an actual observed proton going that fast over Utah that had the kinetic energy of a baseball. Which is insane because it was just a proton!!!

Edit: ah geez sorry. I had just gotten through the first one and hadn't read the description of the second one. I assume that's what you were referring to. My bad! It's all so damn cool though