Comments on: Just a Pile of Gravel? https://blog.speculist.com/space/just-a-pile-of.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/space/just-a-pile-of.html#comment-1603 Stephen Gordon Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:59:10 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=778#comment-1603 Let me throw out this scenario:

Two asteriods collide, one is wiped out, the other, a porous rock, is damaged, but a large chunk of it survived intact. The particles from the wiped out asteriod are attracted back by the large chunk’s gravity. You end up with an asteriod that is sandy on the outside, with a porous chunk on the inside.

Maybe this happened recently enough that it hasn’t had a chance to either break apart or condense further.

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