MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show November 25, 2021 02:51:00
So this didamos binary asteroid, ditamos and bimorphous, if you're into happy naming, is an asteroid where you have an asteroid that has a wide center like this double strawberry and then you have another asteroid going around it like the blueberry. so if you can hit the blueberry with a spacecraft, like these strawberry leaves, then you can slow this smaller asteroid down ever so slightly, ever so slightly, and then when an object is closer to the -- when a smaller object is closer to the larger object, it will go around faster. that's why, for example, mercury goes around the sun much faster...
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