How to make a flying saucer

William F. Bottke
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William F. Bottke: Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA. bottke@boulder.swri.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7201, 173-174

Abstract: Wherever we look in the Solar System, small bodies often seem to come in twos. Simulations show how asteroids spun in the Sun can produce such pairings — one of whose members acquires a strangely familiar shape.

Date: 2008
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