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Asteroid Spinning Impossibly Fast (https://www.newscientist.com)

7 points by metalman about 9 hours ago | 2 comments | View on ycombinator

hmry about 6 hours ago |

> Even clay would not be enough to hold this asteroid together, so it’s probably one big rock or even solid metal.

Neat! I think most people would expect most asteroids to be single big rocks, so finding out they're apparently rare compared to "rubble held together by gravity" asteroids is interesting. The linked article about landslides on rubble asteroids was also cool.

metalman about 9 hours ago |

title says it all

* possible solid metal asteroids