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What function does asteroids, comets and meteoroids serve in the solar system?
These celestial objects bombard the sun, moons, and the planets, so is there a reason why they do this? The earth is bombarded by about 5,000 meteors on a daily basis, so do they do anything or something for the earth?
evirusth...There is a reason for everything! There is even always a reason for an accident.
Thank you all for your answers so far. I will reveal my thoughts before time expires.
Thank you all for your answers so far. I will reveal my thoughts before time expires.
Asteroids, comets and meteoroids function as objects of mass to replace the mass, and matter. that the planets and the sun loss over time. This is the case in all solar systems. The earth itself receives about 5,000 meteorites strike the earth daily. Most of the matter of meteorites vaporize into the atmosphere becoming part of it as gas, vapor or dust. Some of the debris that does fall the surface does so harmlessly. Around 15,000 metric tons of meteoroids, space dust, and debris of different types enters Earth's atmosphere each year. Just as the human body needs food to refuel and for internal recycling so too the earth does to maintain its size, health and mass.
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
They don't have any function, they are just left over debris from the dust cloud that preceded the formation of the major planets.
- Satan ClawsLv 79 years ago
<QUOTE>What function does asteroids, comets and meteoroids serve in the solar system?</QUOTE>
The same function as the rocks at the side of the road which you don't notice when you walk past them.
<QUOTE>These celestial objects bombard the sun, moons, and the planets, so is there a reason why they do this?</QUOTE>
Celestial objects don't have a will of their own. If they "bombard" the Sun, moons and planets, it's because the objects were attempting to occupy the same place at the same time. Just like when you fall on the ground when not holding onto something.
<QUOTE>do they do anything or something for the earth?</QUOTE>
Since meteors come in at large velocities, they meet friction with the atmosphere and heat up. Thus, you're locally heating up the atmosphere around the entry path. But given that the atmosphere is so more massive than the incoming objects, its effect is hardly noticeable (unless they're sufficiently large).
If you learnt how to calculate the kinetic energy of an object at school, then you have all you need to calculate the total energy released. Consider a typical velocity of 30 kilometers per second, assume that the meteor has about from 1 to 8 times the density of water, and pick a size to calculate the mass. Try different sizes and see how much kinetic energy they're carrying; that's how much energy is released on reentry and collision.
<QUOTE>There is a reason for everything!</QUOTE>
If "Just because it's there" counts as a reason to you, then sure.
- biseLv 44 years ago
each and every of the planets and asteroids holiday around the sunlight. a great sort of the comets do additionally. an somewhat few comets are "one time" travelers, in simple terms passing by way of our photograph voltaic device. For the comets that do orbit the sunlight, a pair of million/2 orbit in retrograde orbits (clockwise). each and every thing else travels interior the the comparable direction: counter-clockwise around the sunlight (as seen from far above the North pole). yet all of them have distinctive speeds and paths.
- Gee WamanLv 69 years ago
masses in this Cosmos create gravitational fields. In order to attain gravitational equilibrium, they move towards minimum energy. If the energy is quantized, they move in specific orbits like electrons
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- evirustheslayeLv 79 years ago
There are no reasons, there are effects sure, but reasons? no. it happens because the conditions necessary for them to happen are present. it's primitive thinking to conclude that things happen for a reason.
- Anonymous9 years ago
These are questions that science has not yet been able to answer, so the answer is: no one knows.
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