How great Frog destroyed the Dinosaurs

Some 60 or 70 million years ago the Great Frog Who Controls the Universe was cruising through our solar system in his flying saucer showing things to the Lesser Frogs and they stopped to look at Earth.

"Look at those cute dinosaurs," said the Lesser Frogs. So they watched them for a little while. After watching for a million years or so the Lesser Frogs became bored. "These people always do the same stuff," they said, "let's switch channels."

So the Great Frog Who Controls the Universe cruised out to a distance of a billion miles from the sun and there he found an asteroid. This asteroid was circling around the sun a billion miles out, and the Earth was circling around the sun 93 million miles out, going 1000 miles a minute.

It was Great Frog's idea that at just the right moment he would STOP the asteroid. He could do this by special Frog ways—just stop it right in its tracks. And then it would fall directly in toward the sun and collide with Earth killing all the dinosaurs except for some little ones that would be left around to evolve into birds.

The question is, HOW FAST WAS THAT ASTEROID GOING out there a billion miles from the sun?

Answer: Well it was 11 times farther out so it was going sqrt 11 times slower. Actually 10.75 farther out so the speed was sqrt 10.75 times slower, which means by a factor of 3.3. So it was going right around 300 miles a minute. Suddenly stopping something that is going 300 miles a minute is no problem for frogs.