Question: Now that the asteroid in the preceding problem is available for mining, ( a ) what is the local gravity on the asteroid? Some worried

Now that the asteroid in the preceding problem is available for
mining, (a) what is the local gravity on the asteroid? Some worried people are afraid that the asteroid
might spontaneously turn into a black hole. (b) Calculate the asteroids Schwarzschild radius and
reassure that populous that this cant possibly happen. (

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