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Raw sunlight is going to cause our asteroid belt to spin itself to death by YORPing – but not for another six billion years

The cosmic ballet goes on…

We all know the Sun’s eventually going to expand and envelop the Earth, but for smaller objects further away our star will still be deadly, as its light will cause asteroids to literally spin themselves to death.…

https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/11/asteroid_belt_spin/