There's always something: Asteroids spinning too fast...

[Maxmars]

As it is reported, it appears that at least 19 asteroids have been detected and measured, which appear to be spinning far too fast to maintain a cohesive shape... they should be flying apart... but they're not.

The article is really good... and I don't generally comment on other hosting sites, but the articles they collect and share are really good - it might be worth a return visit.

This one for example: 

This 700-Meter Space Rock Spins So Fast It Should Be Dust by Now

Picture a boulder eight football fields wide, tumbling through the void between Mars and Jupiter. Now imagine it completing a full rotation every 112 seconds. By everything astronomers thought they knew about asteroids, this thing should have ripped itself apart millions of years ago.

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The theoretical limit for large asteroids sits around one rotation every 2.2 hours.

2025 MN45 spins nearly 70 times faster than that...

Enjoy!

[IDELB2006]

As it is reported, it appears that at least 19 asteroids have been detected and measured, which appear to be spinning far too fast to maintain a cohesive shape... they should be flying apart... but they're not.

The article is really good... and I don't generally comment on other hosting sites, but the articles they collect and share are really good - it might be worth a return visit.

This one for example: 

This 700-Meter Space Rock Spins So Fast It Should Be Dust by Now


Enjoy!

I wish I could check this out.

When I click the link I get:

This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in this%20700-meter%20space%20rock%20spins%20so%20fast%20it%20should%20be%20dust%20by%20now.

[quintessentone]

As it is reported, it appears that at least 19 asteroids have been detected and measured, which appear to be spinning far too fast to maintain a cohesive shape... they should be flying apart... but they're not.

The article is really good... and I don't generally comment on other hosting sites, but the articles they collect and share are really good - it might be worth a return visit.

This one for example: 

This 700-Meter Space Rock Spins So Fast It Should Be Dust by Now


Enjoy!

There is definitely still lots to learn about asteroids and comets.

""Clearly, this asteroid must be made of material that has very high strength in order to keep it in one piece," Sarah Greenstreet, an assistant astronomer at the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, said in a statement. "It would need a cohesive strength similar to that of solid rock."
 "This is somewhat surprising," added Greenstreet, who also leads a Rubin working group about near-Earth objects and interstellar objects, "since most asteroids are believed to be what we call 'rubble pile' asteroids, which means they are made of many, many small pieces of rock and debris that coalesced under gravity during solar system formation or subsequent collisions.""

Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovers enormous, record-breaking asteroid in first 7 nights of observations | Live Science

[imitator]

Scientists say it shouldn’t exist...  

Note: Scientists once believed the sun revolved around Earth.  

[Maxmars]

I wish I could check this out.

When I click the link I get:

I am sorry about that... I re-posted the link address... I hope it works now...

(https://scienceblog.com/this-700-meter-s...st-by-now/)

[quintessentone]

Scientists say it shouldn’t exist...  

Note: Scientists once believed the sun revolved around Earth.  

Maybe it doesn't exist. I wonder if a fellow scientist was playing around with their telescopes by installing mechanisms to project hologram images. LOL

[Nerb]

"By everything astronomers thought they knew about asteroids, this thing should have ripped itself apart millions of years ago."

Perhaps Space has such high pressure out there these asteroids refuse to come apart, and the only thing Astronomers don't know is what NASA really knows but isn't saying.

[UltraBudgie]

Maybe it doesn't exist. I wonder if a fellow scientist was playing around with their telescopes by installing mechanisms to project hologram images. LOL

Now you're getting to the heart of it. Arguing about asteroids spinning, the sun going around the earth, or the earth going around the sun is futile. The real question is: is there actually any such thing as revolution? Perhaps it is all an illusion.

[quintessentone]

Now you're getting to the heart of it. Arguing about asteroids spinning, the sun going around the earth, or the earth going around the sun is futile. The real question is: is there actually any such thing as revolution? Perhaps it is all an illusion.

I believe you nailed it, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle