This Friday in This Blog's History I bring back to you a classic astronomy misconception regarding our solar system's asteroid belt. Many people think the asteroid belt is so filled with asteroids that you have to duck and dodge your way through to survive. Not exactly. Turns out that individual asteroids are still millions of miles apart. There's a larger concentration of asteroids in the belt than anywhere else in the Solar System, but the distance between any two asteroids is so large that you don't have to worry about a collision.
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Asteroid Belt Misconception
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