| ▲ | jandrewrogers an hour ago | |
Most likely minimal? The mass is low. I am, however, reminded that the orbit of the asteroid Juno (~250km diameter) permanently changed in 1839 without an obvious cause. | ||
| ▲ | shagie 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/primordial-black-holes-s... And the referenced papers: Probing primordial black holes and dark matter clumps in the Solar System with gravimeter and Global Navigation Satellite Systems networks - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.0... Close encounters of the primordial kind: A new observable for primordial black holes as dark matter - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.0... And the PBS Spacetime: How Many Black Holes Are In The Solar System? - https://youtu.be/wh75ubECL8I | ||
| ▲ | Tuna-Fish 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Note that the orbital perturbation of Juno in 1839 was of rather low magnitude, and could have been caused by an asteroid as small as ~1km diameter. Based on current models, there are potentially more than a million rocks that big in the belt still undiscovered. | ||
| ▲ | SoftTalker 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Wouldn't low-mass primordial black holes have evaporated by now? | ||