Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

Quoting Tristan Mc Leay <conlang@...>:

> Erich Kummerfeld wrote:
>
> >I don't know for certain but I would hold the moon's heavily cratered
> surface
> >as evidence that it may be playing/has played/will continue to play a role
> in
> >filtering out large cosmic bodies that come flying our way.
> >
> >
>
> Yeah, but the Moon's hardly there! It must only occupy the smallest
> proportion of the sky, and half the time it's on the Sun's side (and I
> don't imagine very many cosmic bodies come from that side of the sky,
> but IANA astronomer).
About the only reason there'd be fewer objects hitting us from that side is that
they struck us on the way in ...

Any orbit that crosses the Earth's path going in will also cross it going out.
Of course, some of the stuff will strike Venus, Mercury, the Sun, or one of the
little asteroids fooling around in there, but the Solar System is on the whole a
very empty place, and almost everything big enough to worry about going in will
be coming out shortly.

                                                Andreas