You spin me right round, baby, right round like an exploding asteroid, baby, right round round round

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare moment of an asteroid breaking apart, leaving trails of glittering dust in its wake. Measuring 2.3 miles across, the space rock known as 6478 Gault lies in the inner region of the asteroid belt, about 214 million miles (344 million kilometers) from the Sun. It was a pretty …

[Neil Barnes]

all these asteroids that start misbehaving get caught

Bad asteroid, bad! No cookies for you!

[Mark 85]

Re: all these asteroids that start misbehaving get caught

“Asteroids such as Gault cannot escape detection anymore,” Hainaut said.

Indeed, they can run but they can't hide.

[Alister]

Woodstock

We are stardust, we are golden

We are billion year old carbon

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Thanks to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young...

[Aladdin Sane]

Re: Woodstock

Always been particular to the Matthews Southern Comfort version myself. But surely you should be thanking Joni Mitchell since she wrote it?

[Swiss Anton]

Re: Woodstock

Downvote for not mentioning Joni Mitchell (who wrote it, and whose version is much better)

[Alister]

Re: Woodstock

Joni Mitchell's version doesn't include the lyrics "We are billion year old carbon" that was C,S,N&Y's addition.

[Scott 53]

Re: Woodstock

Re: Joni Mitchell's version doesn't include the lyrics "We are billion year old carbon" that was C,S,N&Y's addition.

It did include the line, but only in the last chorus. C, S, N & Y added it to every chorus.

[Anonymous Coward]

“Asteroids such as Gault cannot escape detection anymore,”

First parsed as "Asterix the Gaul" which confused me...

:)

[PK]

... which got me thinking it's an orbiting menhir

[Tom 7]

Sory cant resist

Its YORP's fault their leaving?

[imanidiot]

Typo?

YORP effect, effect, ?

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"...spurts out twin streams of debris"

Worry if Uranus does this

[Muscleguy]

I’m sure there’s an ointment for it.

[Andy The Hat]

Does sound like a good Friday night curry

"Yorp, rice and a nan bread please ... extra chilli"

and possibly the aftermath

"I had terrible yorp this morning ..."

[Mike Moyle]

Who is 6478 Gault?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare moment of an asteroid breaking apart

Me: "Hold my beer!"

(Drops a single quarter in the slot)

[M.V. Lipvig]

Seems to be a hole in a theory...

Planets are said to be formed from accredation disks, where smaller clumps come together and start spinning to form larger ones until they become large enough to have housecats and penguins. On the other hand, this YORPing theory says that sunlight and spinning tears them apart as they fly through space. Each theory goes against the other one.

Just an observation. I don't mind being wrong here, if I am.

[cortland]

Painful asteroids?

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