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Kent space scientist Dr Stephen Lowry has explained how asteroids are held together in the solar system.
Commenting in an article published by The Conversation, Dr Stephen Lowry of the University’s Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences explains how rubble-pile asteroids are formed and how they spin.
You can read Dr Lowry’s full comment in the original article published in The Conversation.
Dr Lowry is also part of an international team of scientists behind Rosetta, one of the most historical space missions of all time. Read more about his involvement here. He also led research which discovered the anatomy of an asteroid.
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