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1 posted on 07/31/2026 8:57:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Ping!..............


2 posted on 07/31/2026 8:58:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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A chunk of a “Shadows” allies’ world destroyed in an ancient war by the Babylon 5 Vorlons?


4 posted on 07/31/2026 10:02:33 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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If it was shown in orange instead of white, it would look just like a typical puffed corn Cheeto.


5 posted on 07/31/2026 10:36:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Red Badger

Actually, not that unique.
Asteroids come in all shapes and forms.


6 posted on 08/01/2026 4:26:21 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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There’s a cosmological factor called “the potato radius” that determines whether a heavenly body is spherical. Planets and such aren’t roughly spherical because some mystical force rolled them into a ball, it’s because once a body has sufficient mass, the gravity of that mass will tend to pull all the aggregate pieces into an ordered shape. The low number is 200 km and the high number 300 km, and that’s radius, not diameter, so this isn’t even half way to the low number.

Earth isn’t spherical because it’s glued that way, it’s spherical because its mass is so great that its effect on the fabric of space-time forces the conglomeration of loose pieces that comprise it into an ordered shape. The fact that it bulges at the equator is evidence that it isn’t solid because the centripetal force of its rotation is propelling the loose pieces further away from its axis of rotation than those pieces nearer the poles.

Which doesn’t mean asteroids smaller than the potato radius can’t be roughly spherical. It does happen, but purely by chance, not because unseen forces demand it. But the odds of anything other than spherical decline steeply once the radius reaches a minimum of 200 km (about 120 miles), which happens to be the observed lower limit for dwarf planets.


7 posted on 08/01/2026 5:07:10 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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That little moon orbits in just a little less than a day at about 100 miles out . If you had a house on that little moon you’d see the bigger asteroid at about the same time schedule as we see the Sun.


8 posted on 08/01/2026 5:20:21 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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