Evolution of Small, Rapidly Rotating Asteroids

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.2307s&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.2307

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Small rubble-pile asteroids can be spun rapidly due to cohesive van der
Waals forces. When they split they must be rotationally accelerated to
split again, a process that can eventually completely fission the body.
Applications to 2008 TC3 are made.

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