To: MtnClimber
Why are so many planets/planetoids/satllites/moons always round but the rogue asteroids are ugly masses ?
4 posted on
03/29/2024 11:55:01 AM PDT by
knarf
(I talk to much to be in jeapordy.)
To: knarf
Why are so many planets/planetoids/satllites/moons always round but the rogue asteroids are ugly masses ?It's really because asteroids are way too small for gravity to do its thing to pull them into a more spherical shape.
6 posted on
03/29/2024 12:03:02 PM PDT by
plsvn
To: knarf
Why are so many planets/planetoids/satllites/moons always round but the rogue asteroids are ugly masses ?Mass and gravity.
Given enough mass, gravity will pull everything into a sphere. Smaller objects don't have the mass required for this to happen.
7 posted on
03/29/2024 12:03:35 PM PDT by
Drew68
To: knarf
Why are so many planets/planetoids/satllites/moons always round but the rogue asteroids are ugly masses ?
Because in order to be spheroidal, something must have sufficient mass to deform into that shape via gravity. And gravity tends to concentrate independent masses together into systems. So the nice round planets, moons, etc have long since been consolidated into systems and/or swept their orbits clear. The remaining scattered stuff small enough to gravitationally slung around on weird trajectories just generally isn't big enough for gravity to squash into a spheroidal shape. And those that originally were have already merged with or gone into orbit around something bigger.
8 posted on
03/29/2024 12:06:14 PM PDT by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: knarf
Why are so many planets/planetoids/satllites/moons always round but the rogue asteroids are ugly masses ?Gravity makes things round. If there is not enough mass this does not happen.
13 posted on
03/29/2024 12:48:17 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
To: alexander_busek
THIS is the second time I've corrected my tagline . . . . SOME thing or one has me singled out.
I'be used this tagline for years.
18 posted on
03/29/2024 7:12:21 PM PDT by
knarf
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