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Old 09-July-2008, 11:50 PM
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Default The Sunny Side of Asteroids

Asteroids with moons, called binary asteroids, are fairly common in the solar system. But scientists haven't been able to figure out the dynamics of these asteroids, especially how the moons form. But a group of astronomers studying binary asteroids say the surprising answer is sunlight, which can increase or decrease the spin rate of [...]

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