How Far Apart Are Asteroids?

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C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.

So what are the actual odds? 1 to 22,320,000? These are perfect odds!

I've always been thinking about this when watching asteroid fields in sci-fi 😄

Trojan asteroids, which share their orbits with larger planets like Jupiter, are fascinating remnants of the early solar system. These asteroids are positioned at stable Lagrange points, leading or trailing their host planet, and provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of our solar system. Studying these space rocks can help us understand the dynamics of planetary systems and the distribution of minor bodies. What can the study of Trojan asteroids tell us about the early solar system’s formation and the stability of planetary orbits, and how might future missions enhance our understanding of these intriguing objects?

600 k miles apart ? wtf ?

Neil D Tyson is wrong on all points. There are very dense asteroids fields. Saturn 🪐 has so many asteroids that formed ring around. Also you not moving at bicycle 🚲 speeds. Even if asteroids are 10 km apart from each other still you gonna hit 🎯 the next asteroid in just a second after you dodge the first one. If travel at just 10 kps. Also asteroids move around. They are not stationary. Even if asteroids are 100 km apart from each other still you gonna hit 🎯 the next one in just 10 seconds. At just 10 kps.

Stop hating on Pluto…please!

Ok, no more edibles before filming!!!

The Nice-roid!

Wait till we find Asteroid Lord Nice 232B... It's funny ASF..🤣

This podcast is awful

is it just me but does the jokes get in the way of serious discourses sometimes? Chuck could turn it down sometimes.

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Yeah movies like star wars are called FICTIONAL. Meaning it doesn't have to be realistic!

Looking down on me… I have a cereal belt.

If the asteroid belt is a disk, why not fly over the disk?

Now now.

Just because our asteroid field isn't very dense does not mean all asteroid fields aren't. It's entirely plausible that asteroid fields as dense as the ones in Star Wars exist, perhaps as debris fields from recently destroyed planets or some other mechanism. It all depends on their origin.

Star wars does suck

My theory is that the asteroid belt is the remains of the missing "Super Earth",that many discovered solar systems seem to possess.

What do you all think the asteroid belt is the remains of? Way too many rocks out there to have been a "Venus-Earth-Mars" size rocky planet.
I believe it was a "Super Earth"size planet. Sitting right there in that same orbit that is now occupied by the Asteroid Belt, until unfortunately Jupiter which is known to have formed closer to the Sun started its' migration out past Venus, Earth and Mars.
Fortunately the orbits of those inner planets kept themselves away from the transiting Jupiter, but "Super Earth" wasn't so lucky and was torn apart by the interaction of their two massive gravities.
What followed was a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment where the Earth was pummeled by debris, much of it containing primordial water. One chunk large enough to have reformed into a Mars sized planet "Thea" collided with Earth creating not only our 23 degree tilt but also forming the Moon as well. Some of the remaining debris formed Jupiter's rings and many of its' moons as it continued out into its' now stable orbit where it has remained for 4 billion years.

Somewhere in the vast infinite reaches of space there must be a region of asteroids that are dangerously close together. Most especially in a galaxy far, far away or in a place that you can only travel to using warp drive.

They missed their opportunity to name it Neil deGrAsteroid Tyson.

Chuck interrupts Neil more often than the puppet Basil Brush interrupts people reading him stories.

If the asteroids are contained within a certain bandwidth on a direct flightpath to let say mars, is there maybe an option to make a space vehicle travel over, or under it like a ballistic trajectory?

Chuck just explained my whole life. My head does be absolutely melted, i cant even hold down a job because i just cannot listen to the same people for 40hours a week, trying to set up my own small business as a window cleaner and i cant even manage to get the money together, like 6,000 euro, id have that paid back in a year. My parents and brothers are wealthy but highly narcissistical and tight, asking them would be me owing them for life and hearing how they set me up and only for them and on and on and on. Vent

the Faster you travel the closer objects seems as you pass them or get near , so I would say it depends on the speed as to how close the asteroids seem , not just the actual distance, I am also sure there's other debris around the asteroid depending on the size , so smaller space rocks

The Expanse books managed to make the scale of the solar system work really well, especially the asteroid and outer planet areas

I laughed so hard—I hope someday a “Nice Asteroid” will join “13123Tyson.” I love learning from Neil and laughing with Chuck. Thank you, both, for such an enlightening and uplifting show.

How big and how heavy is the average asteroid? Is there enough stuff in them to make practical use of? :-)

As with most of your content, this video sparks curiosity and I have a question: In the astroid belt, astroids are 'close' together, does this mean there's also more debris in between those astroids that came from bigger astroids? What's the lower limit of calling something an astroid and is this debris a concern for spacecrafts?

The flag should have the stars to the left.

I'll defend Star Wars by saying it's in a fantasy galaxy, so much like fantasy stories on Earth it gets some leeway to play by its own rules.

I'm harsher on Star Trek (though I still love it) because it's putting forward a hypothetical future for OUR galaxy from a naturalist/modernist perspective.

He killed Pluto. Now he is ruining asteroid fields. What is next? Little green men?

Remember: The first automobile accident in the US was like the very first car in NC New Jersey ran into the the very second car in New Jersey.

So the very first accident with an Asteroid will be a female driver named Judy Jetson.

Lol this makes the spacecraft that collided with didimos which was few meters in diameter makes it even more crazy 👏👏👏🤯

Chuck is the coolest man 😎

To me… space feels like if it was a swimming pool full of water… and it had one grain of sand in that pool… then the grain of sand would be all the matter in space… and the water is the emptiness of space. I know that’s not correct, but it’s the best way I can kind of get an idea on just how big it is

Avg distance is 600,000 miles 😳wow

Nah, that’s the Mike Tyson asteroid.

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in defense of sci-fi, it often takes place in another part of the universe where for all we know asteroids in a belt or cloud are sometimes more densely populated than the one in our backyard.

Tbh “clears its celestial neighborhood” is my favorite part of the criteria that distinguishes a planet from dwarf planet

Stopped at one second in the video because i already know the answer and i just want to share it.

The space between asteroids (specifically the ones in the asteroid belt and the ortcloud) are huge. You can choose any direction to travel through the belt and the chance of hitting an asteroid is less than 1% always.

I knew they were far from each other but like 1000km not 600,000 miles😅😅😅

Ok, so the asteroids are far apart. But that still doesn't eliminate the possibility of a collision. If a probe (like V1/V2) is set on a preprogrammed path but there is an asteroid in its path, does it autonomously know how to decelerate to let the asteroid pass by, or accelerate to pass ahead of it, or adjust its trajectory? While the possibility of collision may be rare, it is not impossible. And since it takes a very long time to send a signal to the probes to modify their path or speed, it is unrealistic to think that we could help them fast enough. If the probe doesn't have a way to autocorrect and a signal from us is too slow, then it boils down to luck. And on that note, what will happen to the probes when they enter unknown/unmapped areas, like the Kuiper Belt? or the Oort Cloud (if they are lucky enough to make it that far)? All I can say is, Good luck and God help you, space buddies!

Neil talking’ jive. 😊

Do they have really small dust of astroids that hit?

Perhaps in another solar system a more dense asteroid belt could be found. Our current understanding of the cosmos is very limited to outlines. And so much waiting to exist until it’s been seen! When we discover we also discover more to discover.

Did Neil just ruin your favorite Sci-Fi?