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Whats more common when dealing with asteroids? In matters pretaining to their motion- do asteroids tend to spin or no? Is speed a factor?
Re: Whats more common when dealing with asteroids? Yes, they rotate (spin). Their orbital velocity is not a factor in their rotation.
As for those whose curiosities fall along more fanciful lines, I suggest it's because they have more money than they know what to do with while not having had enough science and engineering to know what they're dealing with.
Re: Whats more common when dealing with asteroids? Is it assumed their rotation is determined at some point via a collision?
Re: Whats more common when dealing with asteroids? The following may be of some little use: Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It probably does not fully answer your question. A proper study would involve compiling the statistics of asteroid rotation and examining them for correlation with, among other things, orbital parameters and radius. Maybe such a study exists somewhere but I am unaware of it.
Re: Whats more common when dealing with asteroids? thank ya thank ya
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