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To: Arthalion
Flying objects out in space have no weight only the gravity of the body they hit imparts weightiness to the projectile, so an impact would not be as shattering hitting a small chunk of stuff like this as it would if it hit the earth for instance.
33 posted on 09/30/2005 11:43:48 AM PDT by aspiring.hillbilly (!...The Confederate States of America rises again...!)
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To: aspiring.hillbilly
"...Flying objects out in space have no weight only the gravity of the body ..."

you're close. they have mass, not gravity. but the mass and velocity would still cause quite collision.
51 posted on 09/30/2005 12:07:32 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (Name one civil liberty that was not paid for in blood)
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