XPost: sci.space.policy   
   From: ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk   
      
   "Sander Vesik" wrote ...   
   > But if you have two piles of rubble orbiting each other, then surely   
   > tidal forces would over time convert these to fuzzy rubble-balls that would   
   > then coalesce into a single body?   
      
   Over time they would become tidally locked to each other - and in the   
   process they would orbit further apart.  (Or such is my back-of-   
   ornflake-packet   
   understanding).  Ignoring interactions with any _other_ bodies.   
      
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