Saturday, November 12, 2011

How big would a spaceship have to be to cause an eclipse?

To cover the Sun, a spaceship would need to have a width about 1/100th of its distance. If we say it's 200 miles up (there aren't many satellites below that height) it would therefore have to be 2 miles wide. Satellites at that height move quite quickly across the sky, so an eclipse of the Sun would be over in less than a second.

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