Blue Swirl wrote:Hubble discovers a unique object in the solar system. Two asteroids in the region between Mars and Jupiter have been observed orbiting each other, a la a binary star system.
Blue Swirl wrote:NASA discover first interstellar asteroid. Though they missed a track not naming it Rama.
GooberTheHat wrote:Can we use them against trump?
cockbeard wrote:I suppose if it's been travelling in one direction with no internal spin at the speeds it has it could have been eroded down to that shape, after all space isn't a perfect vacuum. Obviously when stationary gravity will cause an object to become close to spherical, this is too small for gravity to mould in that way, but also you kind of think of that shape as being aerodynamic, even in the absence of air
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