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Asteroid Bennu keeps spinning faster and scientists aren't sure why
Space.com ^
| Mar 13, 2019
| Meghan Bartels
Posted on 03/14/2019 2:53:36 PM PDT by ETL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's a bouncing meatball...
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:04:55 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
“Bennu’s rotation rate is speeding up over time — by about 1 second each century.”
Measurement error.
To: Paradox
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:06:10 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: tired&retired
Is it spinning right or left? In particle physics this creates different attributes.
To: ETL
Funny how right after we are absolutely sure about something, we find out we were wrong.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:07:14 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: dhs12345
Outside forces: gravity, solar wind, something (unknown, not visible particles) are hitting it.Could simply be "outgassing" something.
Like a rocket, it moves off in the opposite direction.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:09:31 PM PDT
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ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: tired&retired
“Bennu’s rotation rate is speeding up over time — by about 1 second each century.”If there is outgassing from inside the rock it would cause the rotation to quicken. Because an ordinary spinning object in space should continue spinning at the same rate, unless an outside force acts upon it.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:13:36 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Its radius must be shrinking. Asteroid becoming denser over time?I don't think the rock is massive enough to contract under its own gravitation. But I of course could be wrong.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:16:22 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Yaelle; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; Rebelbase; ...
To: Slyfox
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:20:33 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: ETL
One second a century is not much compression. It must be a solid piece of rock or iron or something. If it is loose particles there wouldn’t be enough gravity to keep it together, as you say.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:21:36 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Its radius must be shrinking. Asteroid becoming denser over time?Like a figure skater pulling her arms in?
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:21:59 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
That would be my thought, but I don’t see how a solid piece of rock or iron or whatever would compress over time.
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:23:08 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: ETL
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:25:46 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: Slyfox
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:25:53 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: tired&retired
“Measurement error.”
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My thinking, too. At 1 second each century it would have to be observed a looooong time to say if it’s speeding up, slowing down or no change at all.
To: ETL
I’d pay $1 to watch that!
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:29:09 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ETL
Everybody loves a big screen
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:30:25 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ETL
Ya gotta love how the guy’s hat stays on LOL
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:31:54 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Seruzawa; DannyTN
It increases speed with each lie Hillary tells?
(just a theory)
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posted on
03/14/2019 3:33:56 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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