Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>
> such a scene would likely be shot with the camera pointing vertically up
> through a glass plate and then dropping a bucket of cardboard rocks ;)

Hey, good idea! I need to remember that... :-P
>
> > It's just a completely fanciful scene. That's why I wasn't even sure what to
> > call those rocks. Not asteroids, not really meteors
>
> certainly not meteors, but you probably meant meteroids :-P
>

Oh. You're right.

>
> > But why would they all be *rotating* and at different rates?
>
> That I find believable, space stuff rotates. In case of a break-up
> the angular momentum of the parent body has to be preserved, but the
> rotation of each individual piece is very much a result of its mass,
> shape, original position, and random collision history.

My scene does looks like an explosion of something. But there's no 'central
explosion point'; the meteors--oops, meteoroids--are just hanging there in
space, doing their thing. Hey, I just thought of a plausible(??) reason for the
random rotations: a mutual gravitational tug-of-war! On second thought, though,
that's not likely; they would eventually join together into a lumpy asteroid.

Oh well. This scene takes place in "a galaxy far far away"-- different physics
there ;-)

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