Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 5, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
How Does Gravity Affect Asteroids?
It was the first time something like that had been observed. A lot of these asteroids come from other solar systems, and e for one reason or another, they were ejected from those solar systems. I don't know the rate at which asteroids are being ejected from our solar system. It certainly will happen. But this particular asteroid was weird because it was going at a speed that was not in orbit around the sun. The attraction is proportional to one over the square of the distance between the bodies. So when the bodies are far apart, that means the the force to to gravity is quite small. When the bodies are close together, the force gets larger and larger. And when the bodies come really
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