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Ethan Singer
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given that gravity pulls things together into spheres, how much mass is needed to do so? Smaller objects such as asteroids, meteors, and that bench in the park don't just turn into spheres, because they lack enough gravitational force to dominate the shape. So at approximately how massive do objects need to be to condense into a sphere?
you would think that the gravity needed to overcome the force of it's constituent particles shaping themselves into a park bench wouldn't be that large... Wouldn't denser objects condense into a sphere, because there's more gravitational influence per cubic meter? In fact, wouldn't the size of objects such as park benches floating in space give us a clue into their composition, because larger non-spheracle objects might be less dense and therefore exert less gravity?
you would think that the gravity needed to overcome the force of it's constituent particles shaping themselves into a park bench wouldn't be that large... Wouldn't denser objects condense into a sphere, because there's more gravitational influence per cubic meter? In fact, wouldn't the size of objects such as park benches floating in space give us a clue into their composition, because larger non-spheracle objects might be less dense and therefore exert less gravity?
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