(a) What is the maximum size of a nonspherical asteroid? (b) What length of steel wire can...
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(a) What is the maximum size of a nonspherical asteroid?
(b) What length of steel wire can hang vertically without breaking? What length of carbon nanotube? What are the prospects for creating a tether that hangs to Earth’s surface from a geostationary satellite?
(c) Can a helium balloon lift the tank used to transport its helium gas? (Purcell, 1983).
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ISBN: 9780691159027
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Authors: Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
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