Is It Safe To Fly Through An Asteroid Belt?
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Navigating Asteroid Belts
In Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO tells Han Solo, “Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one,” indicating that traveling through one of the galaxy’s asteroid clusters is potentially life-threatening. Many people have hung onto the belief that the asteroid belt is littered with these huge rocky objects just waiting to strike any spacecraft that passes by.