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		the8472 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole We do not what such a thing anywhere near Earth though. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911309

api 68 days ago [–]

Only if it evaporates, which it probably wouldn't do for billions of years.

the8472 68 days ago | [–]

Something of asteroid mass would be above the CMB equilibrium temperature, thus already be undergoing runaway evaporation. From the paper:

"This implies that M must be less than 0.8% of the mass of the Earth"

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