When the earth goes through the astroid belt, do any satellites or the space station get hit?
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The earth DOES go through an arm of the asteroid belt that extends very close to earth's orbital path that's why we get spectacular metior showers every november.  \n\nnow that that is out of the way.\n\n  yes sometimes satelites and or the spacestation do get hit.  in fact they are more often getting hit than not.  they are under nearly constant bombardment however like was earlier said most of what hits them is smaller than grains of sand.  if they were to get hit by something largish though depending on where it hit exactly and how it is very likely that it would cause MAJOR damage.  ultimately resulting in the satelites decaying orbit and eventuall reentry.  this sort of thing happens all the time.  personally i'm waiting for hubble to take a right good one right in that pretty little mirror it's got.  that will be one great big and expensive I TOLD YOU SO!\n\nas for the space stasion.  some of its components are like 15 years old.  most of us don't even have cars that old.  we are talking potential for irreparable damage and Cascade FAILURE. any # of things could happen including but not limited to Explosive Decompression.
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The earth IS protected from solar flares.  Unlike most other planets we have analyzed, the earth has an EMF field around it.  Its like a magnet.  Magnets have a North (positive) pole and a South (Negative) Pole.  Electro-Motive Force (EMF) is a flow of electrons from the negative pole to the positive pole.  This flow of electrons acts like a shield and deflects solar flares from reaching the earth.  Now, its not absolute!  There are actually some solar flares that do indeed reach us, but I think this is a bit much for this forum.  I hope this helps!
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It will happen, but exactly when isn't known. Take a look at this website for current risks for those objects that do come relatively close to Earth ==>http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
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With no solid surface for either of these planets, an 'earth'quake would not happen in the traditional sense.  I am sure that there must be some incredible turbulence throughout the entire fluidic interior of the planets, and especial with Jupiter, the core may be solid and made up of metallic hydrogen.  I expect when comet Schumaker-Levy 9 slammed in to Jupiter, it must have set of some tremendous shock waves, but the planet aborbed it with barely a flinch.
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Yes, but only if they're passing through.  An extended time in the Belts would be lethal even in a spaceship, unless the craft were heavily shielded.
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There are two types of satellites: polar and geostationary. Polar satellites circle the earth, covering the north pole and the south pole on every circle, at an altitude of about 850 km. A geostationary satellite "moves with the earth" and is always situated over the same place over the equator, at an altitude of about 36000 km.
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The orbit is called geosynchronous.  Check out the NASA website.  Your can see all the satellites we human have put into orbit.  It'll shock you!
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yes\nA huge asteroid will have a close encounter with Earth this weekend, but astronomers say there is no danger of an impact. The asteroid, known as 2004 XP14, will whiz by about 269,000 miles from the Earth, slightly farther away than the moon.
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I've just read that the gravity on the sun is 28 times greater than the Earth.\n\nIt is gravity that keeps satellites and space stations in an orbit around the Earth, at least if that orbit does not intersect the Earth, because then they would crash, and if that orbit isn't too low above the Earth, because then they'd be slowed down by friction with the outermost layers of the atmosphere of the Earth, and then they'd fall down after all. Gravity also keeps the Moon in its orbit around the Earth, and the Earth and the other planets and comets and asteroids in an orbit around the Sun, and the Sun in an orbit around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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No, the Earth will continue in its orbit around the sun. But as the sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and balloons into a red giant, it will become so huge that Earth will be completely incinerated. Sorry to break it to you.
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The astroid belt is a region between mars and jupiter that is densly populated with asteroids...scientists believe that this debris are the remains of a planet that existed once.
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The worst thing that'll hurt the Earth is getting melted by the Sun when it grows from a small yellow star into a red giant star in about seven billion years, as estimated by astrophysical calculations.\n\nThe Sun will  transform all the hydrogen it has into helium by fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei. The helium will accumulate in the Sun's nucleus, and the Sun's volume will increase. Its temperature will also increase. As a consequence, In about three billion years, water in the Earth's oceans will evaporate. In about seven billion years, the Sun will ultimately swallow Mercury, and its temperature will be so high that the Earth's rocks will melt.\n\nAfter that, the Sun will have burned all the helium in it and shrink into a white dwarf star, so the Solar System, including the Earth, will freeze.\n\nThat will mark the end of the Earth, and so it will be the thing that will hurt it most.
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all of them have different orbits...and each satellite is bound to its orbit by means of gravitational force...so they dont collide....however if they loose their stability of the orbit they may collide.
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The moon is geologically inert. It is believed that the last lunar volcano erupted several million years ago (perhaps more than a billion years ago though there is some debate). There would be NO effect on the earth whatsoever as lunar volcanism was less energetic it is unlikely that anything spewed out would escape lunar gravity and reach Earth.\n\nOn the other hand, asteroid IMPACTS on the moon CAN be energetic enough to throw debris towards the Earth, and some meteorites found on the Earth are believed to be of lunar origin.
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Barring one of these, http://www.livescience.com/technology/10ways_destroyearth.html in about 5 billion years the sun will have exhausted most of it's hydrogen and will swell up to a red giant, engulfing the earth. As our blackened, burned-out cinder of a planet orbits inside the sun, it will be plowing through solar material, and will gradually spiral into the core, where it will fly apart shortly before impact and be smashed into it's base elements with little fanfare.
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Solar wind reaches all of the planets in varying degrees. Flares most likely do not reach Mercury.
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must be thousands, as strictly all satellites that have been launched and are still up there go round the sun by virtue of the fact that the earth and all other planets go round the sun