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**thegamexpertsdotcom** · 04-03-2010, 07:32 AM

11,000 MPH is really slow for space. That's less than half of Earth's escape velocity. Space garbage?

This is what happens when one website misquotes another website's misquote of an original source:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...-20100202.html

Asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet. The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, or LINEAR, program sky survey on Jan. 6. New Hubble images taken on Jan. 25 and 29 show a complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the nucleus. In other words, the mean relative impact speed between collided asteroids is in the order of 11,000 mph - the individual velocity of each object relatively to the Sun will be much higher, although there is no indication of what that is in this particular instance.

04-03-2010, 07:32 AM	#26
thegamexpertsdotcom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	11,000 MPH is really slow for space. That's less than half of Earth's escape velocity. Space garbage? This is what happens when one website misquotes another website's misquote of an original source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...-20100202.html Asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet. The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, or LINEAR, program sky survey on Jan. 6. New Hubble images taken on Jan. 25 and 29 show a complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the nucleus. In other words, the mean relative impact speed between collided asteroids is in the order of 11,000 mph - the individual velocity of each object relatively to the Sun will be much higher, although there is no indication of what that is in this particular instance.
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