Three thousand, seven hundred and twenty to one
This is what two large boulders smashing into each other at 11000 mph looks like. A couple days ago NASA released this photo observed by Hubble. It would have been great to see “live”. The asteroid belt isn’t exactly quite like what you see in movies like “The Empire Strikes Back”; there isn’t a dense ring of rocks in a seemingly random, chaotic orbit and you can’t stand on one and wave to your friend on a neighbouring rock. There’s thousands, millions of kilometers between sizable objects so this type of collision has never been observed before. The Imperial TIE Fighters would be quite safe following Han Solo into our asteroid field, and I’m pretty sure there would be no giant space worms to gobble them up. The closeup in the lower right looks bad-ass, like some sort of evil talon spaceship streaking through the sky.
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