{"id":25597,"date":"2010-07-22T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/asteroid-comparison-chart-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T08:10:44","slug":"asteroid-comparison-chart-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/asteroid-comparison-chart-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid comparison chart | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Lakdawalla &mdash; scientist, blogger, and all around cool chick &mdash; has just posted a totally awesome <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00002585\/\">scale diagram comparing every asteroid and comet visited by spacecraft<\/a>. 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:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9fbea_emily_asteroids_comets.jpg\" alt=\"emily_asteroids_comets\" width=\"610\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18829\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Whoa. Look how big Lutetia, just visited by Rosetta, is compared to everything else! And yet, at 130 km across, it&rsquo;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&rsquo;d be far smaller than our rocky satellite.<\/p><p>Still, small doesn&rsquo;t mean \"uninteresting\". These rocks in Emily&rsquo;s diagram are all fascinating beasts, and the more we learn about them the more compelling they become. And there&rsquo;s more to come, with the Dawn mission about to see the big asteroids Vesta and Ceres up close&hellip; and go read Emily&rsquo;s blog about this to see how they&rsquo;d fit on the diagram (hint, they don&rsquo;t, and by a long shot). You&rsquo;ll also find a much larger version of the diagram there, and you really, <em>really<\/em> should look at it. Wow.<\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TVzBE0A73HbFggF5OYGsbziUFO4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9fbea_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TVzBE0A73HbFggF5OYGsbziUFO4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81c1f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81c1f_mZAF-3JAKgU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81c1f_h9sq8RJnqiY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Lakdawalla &mdash; scientist, blogger, and all around cool chick &mdash; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/asteroid-comparison-chart-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}