Chinese land on the moon?

Oh yeah.. I hate learning. If I misread something, or am painfully unaware of things I like to stay in that little bubble and either pretend I am right or remain willfully ignorant. I find it makes me a much more well rounded person to me.

 

Well an asteroid is classed as a minor planet. To be that it must have an established orbit. Something moving through the solar system at 900 miles a second is definitely on its way to somewhere else, in probability it would be moving fast enough to even leave the galaxy entirely

 

What do you call a large rock like that?
I thought one of the classification of planets was shape.

 

such objects would be classified as interstellar object or simply a rogue object. they are not gravitational bound to any star.

 

Well thats a pretty tricky and very sticky question at the moment.

This is the official description

1. is in orbit around the Sun,
2. has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and
3. has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.

And when you start considering the various bodies found in our solar system you get a diagram something like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SolarSystemBodies.png

Which is about as easy to read or understand as the New York underground rail system.

Now just to complicate things a little more - these rules appear not to apply in extra-solar planets. This means Pluto is not a planet in our solar system, but if we found it orbiting another star it would be a planet


I warned you lol

 

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What do you call a giant rock hurling through the galaxy?

 

Right now? Anything you want to lol

 

Aren't we all humans? This is why a hate humanities tendency towards nationalism.

 

So how do I get corrected calling it an asteroid?

 

In the context of his post he was talking we as in the United States, however the probe he was referring to was a designed and built effort by the European Space Agency

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Sorry I was being flippant - As in you could call it Bruce, fatso Death star etc. An asteroid has to be in orbit around the sun, thats the major distinction

 

Don't you know NASA was involved in Cassini-Huygens mission, from designing the orbiter to providing access to the Galileo spacecraft that had already been orbiting Jupiter? I think "we" is the appropriate pronoun for an American to acknowledge this mission, on more than one level.

 

Yeah, with cooperation from NASA.

 

Thank you for the correction then. Now I won't come off as such an idiot in the future.

 

Promise me if you ever get to use that nugget of information in this life or the next, let me know

 

Huygens was a 100% european project.

But if you want talk about "we". We germans designed most of the instruments of all 3 mars rovers.

 

A failed concept?! LMAO! The shuttle did a lot more than send satellites into orbit. Hubble? The rest of your comment is ridiculous.

 

So who designed the enterprise ?

 

apparently not evryone agreed. Many scientists called it a failure. Challenger killed 7...Columbia 7 more. No other system was more deadly and unsafe as the shuttle. It never achieved what it was intended to do. The shuttle did hold your space program back, ate the budget and could not fullfill its duty. Hubble could also have been send itno space with a normal rocket. Ever wondered why nobody else followed the Shuttle Concept? The russian Buran was scrapped. In europe we stopped our shuttle project and concentrated on Ariane V.

 

Considering what era it was designed it did pretty damn good. It's pretty pathetic IMO that everyone is still using disposable torpedoes with chemical rockets to get into space.

IMO everyone's space program is held back. The fact that we're still using chemical rockets to get into space is pretty old school. Ion propulsion is still in it's infancy. If the US put half of it's military budget and entitlements into NASA we'd probably be landing probes and rovers on Europa and everywhere else.

 

Europa is our play ground. We send a space craft there. Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer...

It will make research on Europa, Ganymed and Callisto. That is our field. And you guys should not step into our field.

 

LMAO. The EU finally makes it into space a half a century behind everyone else and you think you own the solar system.

 

are you kidding me? You are aware that we made great projects already? Giotto was first space probe flying into a comets tail, huygens landed on Titan, comet chaser Rosetta, Mars Express, Venus Express...Bepi Colombo will go to Mercury and Marco Polo-R will bring back material from an asteroid. We will defend our interests and i don´t think you should interfer in our business.

 

Spoken like a true German. Arrogant and self centered. Obviously a lesson not learned.

 

Thats a funny thing to say. You denie us the right to defend our interests?

We also will build our own moon base and i think you sure understand that we defend our interests. That has nothing to do with arrogance. You would only try to steal our innovations and rescources.