<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bret Kulakovich</b> <<a href="mailto:bret@bonfireproductions.com">bret@bonfireproductions.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote:<br><br>> an asteroid that you have carefully manipulated so it has stopped<br>> rotating and always has one side facing the sun all the time<br><br><br>~ If one side is facing the sun all the time, then it is rotating.
<br></blockquote><div><br>Allright, yes, its rotating very slowly -- much slower than asteroids normally rotate. Presumably Spike is going to have to position some little thrusters at various positions around the asteroid to keep it rotating at precisely that rate in the event that it gets whacked by some lesser asteroid/meteorite. If it gets whacked by a non-lesser asteroid/meteorite Spike probably doesn't have a telescope any more so it doesn't really matter.
<br><br>...<br>And Natasha's posts were great. Had me ROTFL.<br><br>R.<br><br></div><br></div><br>