--- In , allen carpenter <justacarpenter@...> wrote:
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> can anyone here reach the 'evil Dr ganymede'? pretty much a guarantee he
> will have the correct answer, unless we want to scoop the NASA web pages for
> all the possibilites.
Yeah, cause I totally pulled those numbers outta my as... teroid.
wth?
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> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:27 PM, far_trader_mail
> <far_trader_mail@...>wrote:
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> > --- In <>,
> > "Daryl Frewing" <daryl@> wrote:
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> > > Hey all. Anyone know what an acceptable Volume to Mass ratio would be for
> > an asteroid? I realize it varries substancially based on what kind of ore is
> > in it, but I was just wondering what an average might look like. (Kinda like
> > how cargo is assumed to be 1:1 by default, unless specified otherwise.)
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> > Typically about 3.3 grams per cubic cm for the common rocky asteroids.
> > Anything significantly less is probably not a solid body but more likely a
> > loose aggregate. Up to around 7.9 grams per cubic cm for the rarer solid
> > iron-nickle asteroids.
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