Saturday, May 25, 2019
Close Call, Non-Event, Cool Gif
Asteroid with its Own Moon Zips Past Earth Tonight: article at Space dot com
Perhaps the most unexpected thing we're finding about asteroids, KBOs, and pretty much anything smaller than a minor planet is that weird equatorial bulge. They seem to be not so much the rocks we'd guessed, as gravel piles shaped by the conflict of gravity and centrifugal force.
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