Forces that hold rapidly spinning near-Earth asteroid together discovered

13 agosto 2014

Astronomers studied near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA and discovered that the body, which rotates extremely quickly, is held together by cohesive forces called van der Waals, never detected before on an asteroid.
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