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Author: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan O. Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit
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Adding Up Asteroids. It's estimated that there are a million asteroids 1 kilometer across or larger. If a million asteroids 1 kilometer across were all combined into one object, how big would it be? How many 1-kilometer asteroids would it take to make an object as large as Earth? (Hint: You can assume they're spherical. The expression for the volume of a sphere is 4 3 π r 3 , where r is the radius.}

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