Jesse Rogerson

And the record breaker being like 1.8 minutes.

So imagine something like the size of an apartment building, like a big, huge apartment building spinning once around every 1.8 minutes.

It's incredibly fast.

And at that speed, it should tear itself apart, which it's not.

So therefore, we need to get back to the drawing board on how we actually model what an asteroid is.

It's not all of them are collections of rubble.

I guess the question is, what is it?

How did it get created?

These are the open questions.

So when you have something that... This is clearly... In order to have the tensile strength to stay together spinning at that speed, it's got to be solid rock.

It can't just be a collection of rocks.

And in order for that to be the case, it probably was part of a larger object earlier on in the history.

So imagine you had two...

planet-sized or maybe two moon-sized objects that had collided, and they create like shrapnel that flies all over the solar system, and those chunks would be like solid rock, and that could be your asteroid.

That makes me think of the flying spaghetti monster theory, and that must be where the flying spaghetti monster lives, is at the center of a black hole.

Anyway, the...

The first thing to think about with a black hole is because of the word hole is in it, we tend to think of it as like a hole, but it's not.

It's an object.

It has mass, right?

I try to tell my students, don't think of it as falling into a black hole.