Timeline for Is there a small enough planet or asteroid you can orbit by jumping?
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| Dec 10, 2012 at 18:53 | comment | added | Max Abrahamsson | Thanks for the answer :) I'm also a game developer,After I see that this is physically quite possible,I'm quite impressed. Do you think a game based on travelling on asteroids by jumping & collecting stuff etc. would be fun? | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 10:59 | comment | added | Claudius | @Singularity Conservation of angular momentum says yes, but I don’t think that velocity relative to the surface ‘counts’, i.e. you need angular velocity around the centre of mass to actually take off. | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 7:32 | comment | added | user12926 | Interesting side effect: Will Asteroid also start rotating on opposite direction, giving us more relative velocity w.r.t surface ? | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:56 | comment | added | Max Abrahamsson | @Claudius well, that would be awesome! :D if they could place it on of the lagrangian points between moon and earth, it would also be easy to get there for a superman-like vacation :D | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:51 | comment | added | Claudius | @AhmetYıldırım I understand a few people currently want Obama to build a Death Star, maybe you can chime in and ask if they can build it to your specifications so that you can fly around it? :) | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:45 | comment | added | Max Abrahamsson | sir thank you for all the calculation, that accept the answer button didnt feel enough to express my appreciation so i comment here i hope it is not* against rules on this site :P | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:38 | comment | added | Claudius | @gerrit Just build a spherical one. 4 km is not that much :-) | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:38 | comment | added | user10851 | @gerrit No, but asphericity helps if you start on the bulge. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:37 | comment | added | user10851 | Beat me to the answer. I get a similar result (about 3.5 km) phrasing the question as "can a single jump from a typical person impart enough energy to reach escape velocity). | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:37 | comment | added | gerrit | Are any asteroids of this size remotely spherical? | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:35 | vote | accept | Max Abrahamsson | ||
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| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:32 | history | answered | Claudius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |