Starship Asterisk*

Nonsense! Or more politely, that may not be the explanation. A continuous exposure that showed such discontinuity could have that explanation, but this is not a continuous exposure. It is described as a 'composite', many individual exposures, each elongated into a dash by the duration of that expos...

Chris Peterson is correct. The light curve dose show the rotation of 2006 VV2's 2.43 hour rotation period. That also tells us something of the nature of the object. Unlike meny asteroids 2006 VV2 is a solid mass not a rubble pile. Since the gravitational field of a mile wide object is less then the ...