What If Earth Was Sandwiched Between Two Asteroid Belts?
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It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. How long would it be before one of these belts sent their asteroids hurtling toward Earth? And what kind of collisions could we see if these space rocks hit us?
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00:00 Earth between asteroid belts
00:52 Two asteroid belts
01:25 Kuiper Belt
01:55 Thank you, Wondrium!
03:06 Astronomical units
04:26 New orbits
05:20 Space travel
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