[Krononauts] Asteroid Comparison Chart

[Carl Brown]

very cool. Hmmm MC weren't you going to to do a space game? 
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Liz Bowman [eyebowman at hotmail.com]
>Sent: 7/22/2010 11:22:07 AM
>To: krononauts at mimesisrpg.com
>Subject: Re: [Krononauts] Asteroid Comparison Chart
>
>Just thought you guys might find this interesting
>
>From Bad Astronomy, I quote the blog post:
>
>"Emily Lakdawalla - scientist, blogger, and all around cool chick - has
just
>posted a totally awesome scale diagram comparing every asteroid and
comet
>visited by spacecraft. It features pictures of all the rocks, each of
which she
>has carefully resized so you can see just how big they are relative to
each
>other..."
>
>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/20/asteroid-comp
arison-chart
>
>"Whoa. Look how big Lutetia, just visited by Rosetta, is compared to
everything
>else! And yet, at 130 km across, it's a dot compared to our Moon. In
fact, you
>could smash together all the known asteroids in the main belt between
Mars and
>Jupiter and they'd be far smaller than our rocky satellite.
>
>Still, small doesn't mean "uninteresting". These rocks in Emily's
diagram are
>all fascinating beasts, and the more we learn about them the more
compelling
>they become. And there's more to come, with the Dawn mission about to
see the
>big asteroids Vesta and Ceres up close. and go read Emily's blog about
this to
>see how they'd fit on the diagram (hint, they don't, and by a long
shot). You'll
>also find a much larger version of the diagram there, and you really,
really
>should look at it. Wow."
>
>
>
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