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Foundations of Astronomy (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman

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Chapter22: Jupiter And Saturn

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 14RQ: If Jupiter had a satellite the size of our own Moon orbiting outside the orbit of Callisto, what...

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the area in between Mars' and Jupiter's orbit to be ~1.6e18 km². Since there are roughly 750,000 asteroids, how much area (in km²) is available for one asteroid? Use this calculation to argue whether you are likely (or not) to hit an asteroid while flying through the asteroid belt.

(Hint: To answer the first part of the question, find the area per asteroid)

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