A Mini Moon! Yes! That's what I need!
Posted on 01/26/2015 6:34:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
Put a pair of pants on it and it won’t moon us.
Congratulations! You are the first human on earth to write that sentence. And it happenend right here on FR. Monumental!
I saw that too, but I guess once they get big enough they tend to get rounder?
The mini moon is likely a piece of the main asteroid that got broken off during a collision with another object.
If you run out of gas, get ethyl. If ethyl runs out, get Mabel.
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A Mini Moon! Yes! That's what I need!
It’s snowing in DC. What asteroid?
On second thought, this is DC so we have many Hemorrhoids instead. I can see them from my window. They are called Democrats and politicians.
Modern physics (qm gr) is all the rage, but good old classical mechanics has a certain beauty and simplicity that just can’t be beat.
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Consider that the nucleus of an atom can hold all kinds of electrons in moonlike orbit. Yet the nucleus is so tiny we cannot even see it.
?zer0’s brain?
Wait there is Mass to it so that blows that theory...
I’m going to wait until that glint of light has made at least one orbit.
Looks like it though.
If you moon an ASSteroid, you will be the butt of many jokes.
“U-Pump Ethyl”. My very favorite gas,station of all time. Columbia, MO, 1972.
The trick is that gravity is based on mass and distance. In the asteroid belt, the planets are so far away that their gravitational influence is very weak. Asteroids have much less mass, but since they are much closer, they exert the largest attraction in the neighborhood, and start orbiting each other.
“Consider that the nucleus of an atom can hold all kinds of electrons in moonlike orbit.”
It doesn’t hold them in orbit with gravity though, that is electromagnetism.
Possibly manifestations of the same basic force, but we haven’t established that connection yet.
Man! This could be the little planet the fierce little starship warriors come from that fly out of the dog’s head in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That passage was so cool I had to read it a couple of times. Anyone remember that?
Yeah, the bigger the object (or the more mass really), the higher its gravity becomes. That will tend to distort the object into a compact, round shape, as all the matter tries to get as close as possible to the center of mass.
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