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Asteroids Don’t Break Up Like You Think They Do: Study
universetoday.com ^ | on December 31, 2014 | Elizabeth Howell

Posted on 12/31/2014 8:54:32 AM PST by BenLurkin

“For asteroids about 100 meters [328 feet] in diameter collisions are not the primarily cause of break ups – rapid rotation is,” the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stated.

“Moreover, because the rate of collisions depends on the numbers and sizes of objects but rotation does not, their results are in strong disagreement with previous models of collisionally-produced small asteroids.”

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: catastrophism
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The only reason "we" "think" they break up a certain way is because you clowns (not you personally Ms. Howell but the scientific community at large) told us that is how they break up.
1 posted on 12/31/2014 8:54:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
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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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But someone wrote their thesis on this, so it must be true/S


3 posted on 12/31/2014 9:00:48 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...



4 posted on 12/31/2014 9:01:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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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: BenLurkin

It makes sense that, in space, nothing just falls apart. With no outward force of gravity to pull things apart, relatively small bodies can hold themselves together reasonably well.


6 posted on 12/31/2014 9:07:28 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Very true.


7 posted on 12/31/2014 9:08:09 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Like You Think They Do: “
You don’t know what I think. Don’t presume to know.


8 posted on 12/31/2014 9:09:46 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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The only reason "we" "think" they break up a certain way is because you clowns

If not for them "clowns" we would think that the sun and stars rotate around the earth once a day, that the stars and planets were lanterns in the sky, and comets were atmospheric disturbances. Knowledge and truth are very limited and hard won goods, and our models and theories are constantly being revised and refined.

When scientists speak with certainty unwarranted by the facts or their knowledge (I'm talking to you, Neil) or bend their results to curry political favor or power (Hi, Dr. Mann) they are frauds and charlatans. OTOH, people often demand pat answers and simple explanations. The popular explanations are often the most plausible, stripped of the arguments and observations backing them up and without mention of alternative explanations.

9 posted on 12/31/2014 9:10:10 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

According to Neil Sedaka, breaking up is hard to do.


10 posted on 12/31/2014 9:11:32 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: BenLurkin

Rusty Griswold: Hey, ya’ got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty Griswold: Ya’ got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty Griswold: Ya’ got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can’t even sit on the toilet some days.


11 posted on 12/31/2014 9:12:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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Asteroids Don’t Break Up Like You Think They Do: Study

Everybody knows that the big ones break up into two medium size pieces. The medium ones break up into three small pieces. The small pieces vaporize.


12 posted on 12/31/2014 9:20:05 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Kirkwood

And now I know...I know that it’s true


13 posted on 12/31/2014 9:22:12 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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The funny thing is that I didn’t have an opinion on this until after I saw the headline. The headline made me wonder what I was actually supposed to think about asteroid breakup.


14 posted on 12/31/2014 9:25:42 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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Asteroids Don’t Break Up Like You Think They Do

It's true. I thought they broke up over coffee, like two mature adults. Sure, there may be some crying, but, in the end, they decide they can still be friends.

Turns out they do it over email, because they are scared of confrontation.

15 posted on 12/31/2014 9:29:03 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Kirkwood
, , ↓ 2 B 2 ↓ ↓
, , ↓ 2 B 2 ↓ ↓

16 posted on 12/31/2014 9:29:53 AM PST by mikrofon (Happy New Year BUMP)
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To: Yo-Yo

...and the trick is to zap ‘em until there’s only one small piece floating around, and then wait for the flying saucers to come out and pick them off as they appear.


17 posted on 12/31/2014 9:30:45 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (Obstruct. Oppose. Overthrow. Obama.)
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To: ModelBreaker
The funny thing is that I didn’t have an opinion on this until after I saw the headline. The headline made me wonder what I was actually supposed to think about asteroid breakup.

I was ready to accept that what I was supposed to think before isn't the same as what I'm supposed to think now, but after reading your post I don't know WHAT to think.

18 posted on 12/31/2014 9:33:36 AM PST by samtheman (WHAT)
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To: mikrofon
, , ↓ 2 B 2 ↓ ↓
, , ↓ 2 B 2 ↓ ↓

You should start a band.

19 posted on 12/31/2014 9:40:14 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: tnlibertarian

20 posted on 12/31/2014 9:44:59 AM PST by Bratch
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