[jpsb]

Well cripplecreek is a pretty smart guy, but I’m with you on this one. If there are large asteroids we can see then, given the nature of the Asteroid belt, there are smaller ones we can’t see. So maybe the larger ones are a million miles apart but the smaller one could be closer 100’s-1,000’s maybe? I know we have sent missions into the asteroid belt but not many missions and the missions have been to very large asteroids that have probably swept their orbits clean of the little rocks. Beer time, later all.

[cripplecreek]

The Dawn spacecreft has been traveling in the asteroid bet for a few years now.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/live_shots.asp

[dragnet2]

Same thing with current attempts to locate smaller earth sized planets orbiting other star systems...We already knew with current technology the first to be detected/discovered would be the Jupiter++ size/class planets due to the size factors.

Unfortunately, as you're probably aware, due to technology restraints, we can only see or detect so far out. It's too bad, as I am confident there are probably tens of billions of earth like planets/planets where life could exist in this universe.