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Old 05-07-2008, 06:56 PM
Joeschmoe Joeschmoe is offline
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Not to be too big of a downer but i just did some calculations. Using the biggest asteroid and the mass of the galactic core of 1 million suns (best estimate). The force generated is 2 newtons. Or the same force that the earth exerts on one of those half pint chocolate milk containers.

Considering the mass of the largest asteroid is. 9.1*10^20 kgs. Or 910,000,000,000,000,000,000 kgs. I don't think it's going anywhere fast. In fact it would be accelerating at a rate of 7.91*10^-24 km/second^2. Or 0.00000000000000000000000132 km/h^2. It would take 1.24*10^23 hours to get to 1km/hour or 14,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to accelerate to 1km/hour. That being many orders of magnitude longer than the universe has been in existence.
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