On: New research shows smacking an asteroid may fracture but not shatter it (2019)

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This offers an interesting variation of the old timey classic asteroids game where instead of splitting apart and pieces flying in directions appointed by Newtonian physics and the conservation of momentum, the pieces of the hit asteroid try to reassemble according to some model of gravitation or attraction.

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Considering the escape velocity for such a body, those fragments would have to be very slow relatively to each other.