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33: Q&A - The Year in Space

The Supermassive Podcast

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Asteroid Formation

Next month we will be talking about planetary defense given there's this current mission called DART that's aiming to redirect an asteroid. How did asteroids form into rocks since they don't have enough mass to pull themselves into a sphere how did they become solid rocks is it merely a result that those dust and gas particles collided at a very high speed or were they once a part of another larger object that was formed and subsequently smashed apart? We'll continue to refer to Izzy with that title obviously so if you think about the dust that's even in your house it sticks together fairly easy.

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