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To: SunkenCiv

Very strange. Nowhere near enough gravity to keep all those rocks sticking to it, let alone to have what looks all the world like a dust or small debris slope at an angle of repose.


7 posted on 08/23/2014 8:47:26 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

nothing to knock the rocks off either


9 posted on 08/23/2014 8:52:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Talisker

At the moment, there is nothing to move loose material off the comet’s surface. It has a mass of ~1 X 10^13 kg. Escape velocity is ~0.5 m/s.


11 posted on 08/23/2014 11:18:58 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Talisker

It does not take much gravity in space to hold a object by my way of thinking, and I am not a scientist.

All you need to be is the biggest mass in the vicinity. The small stuff will come to you.

I wonder what would happen if you had a fat guy floating about..


12 posted on 08/23/2014 11:24:49 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Talisker

There’s plenty of gravity to do that, there’s just nothing large enough that’s near enough to entice the pieces away.


17 posted on 08/24/2014 9:34:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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