• Question: How far can a asteriod go

    Asked by anon-245617 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 16 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Hello Grew, it can go on forever and could leave our Solar System if it is on the right orbit! 🙂

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      There’s no limit. Just takes time. if it goes off with a large enough speed it could even escape the galaxy. In reality, it’s very difficult for an asteroid to be fast enough, and they are typically restricted to solar systems, or sometimes they make it to another solar system, like a recent “extra-solar” asteroid visitor we had!

    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Asteroids tend to circle around the sun but if they get pulled or pushed by Jupiter or one of the other planets, or jostled by the other asteroids they can get knocked out of their orbit and travel through the solar system and maybe outside too. We know now that we have visitors from other solar systems here and they might be asteroids.

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