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To: BenLurkin

We have such a small sample size that its kind of pointless to say they do or don’t break up in any particular manner.

Its kind of like plucking a grain of sand off a beach and proudly declaring that grains of sand are shaped like this.


2 posted on 12/31/2014 8:58:19 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cripplecreek
We have such a small sample size that its kind of pointless to say they do or don’t break up in any particular manner.

That's the problem with most answers in astronomy.

5 posted on 12/31/2014 9:06:11 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: cripplecreek

I have long proposed that if we detect a “killer” asteroid that is going to strike the Earth at some time in the future, that rapid spinning could be used to remove the threat. This would be accomplished by landing several small ion engines on the asteroid in a pattern designed to rotate the asteroid. Rotate it enough and you can alter the trajectory. Rotate it even faster and you can spin it apart.


28 posted on 12/31/2014 10:13:28 AM PST by taxcontrol
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