Friday, February 12, 2016

solar system - What is the average distance between objects in our asteroid belt?


We've all seen sci-fi movies with asteroid belts that require "great skill" to fly through, but how dense is the asteroid belt really?


How much of the belt could you see from the surface of a given asteroid?


Is it uneven, with dense and sparse patches?




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