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Old 02-01-2011, 03:15 AM
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Is there any statistics on asteroid spin rates, generally, to suggest the odds of such low spin rates happening by chance?

Also - if an asteroid's mass deviated significantly from uniform distribution such that one side was significantly more dense than the other then I suspect (but do not know) that damping will kick in quicker.

And - of course - your data could be wrong (but hopefully not).

Keep us updated - this is interesting.

Mark C.
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