Granular ``van der Waals Bridges'' and the Cohesion of Rubble-Pile Asteroids

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012lpi....43.1620s&link_type=abstract

43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 19–23, 2012 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1659, id.1620

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Fine regolith in rubble pile asteroids may act as a sort of "van der
Waals concrete" that forms bridges that bind larger boulders and
strengthens small asteroids, allowing them to rotate more rapidly. We
test these ideas using DEM simulations.

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