Some calculations in colonizing an Asteroid such as Ceres

March 1, 2009

Lets make Ceres a case for asteroid colonization.
It is a nice big asteroid and it rotates 1/544 times per minute. If we wanted to, we could increase the rotation significantly and achieve artificial gravity with an outward centripetal force. We would naturally dig inside and live inside the outer surface of the asteroid [...]

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