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Old 02-01-2011, 10:58 AM
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Craig, I'm intrigued by the outgassing idea, how good is your maths? Lets take an 83km sphere at 2g/cm^3 density and work out how much energy would be required to slow the asteroids rotation from 3/d to 0.02/d over a period of say 4By.

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