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To: tbw2; chesty_puller

OTOH, some asteroids are oblong or misshapen, and in those cases probably began as two (or more) asteroids, winding up giving each other the come-hither, until they became one. Of course, a smallish object crossing their mutual path at the right velocity could knock them apart as it was vaporized by the impact.


26 posted on 05/31/2013 4:29:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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for examples:

4179 Toutatis
1620 Geographos

http://www.google.com/search?q=near+earth+asteroids+oblong


27 posted on 05/31/2013 4:31:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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