Timeline for Why are what end up being meteorites not in stable orbit as planets and large asteroids are?
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| Feb 5 at 2:42 | vote | accept | releseabe | ||
| May 23, 2022 at 19:22 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
nature abhors two things, a vacuum and an unsupported Stack Exchange answer no matter how good it is.
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| May 22, 2022 at 20:13 | comment | added | releseabe | Yes, radiation pressure, never heard of the Yarkovsky effect, but interesting. Even though larger bodies receive more by radiation pressure, their surface area compared to volume is lower, right? I would also guess impacts by other small bodies, even if rare, would have a potentially large effect on their orbits/ | |
| May 22, 2022 at 19:16 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |