OT: Ceres more interesting than previously thought

[inigma]

My info on "natural spin" comes from Dr. Ning Li formerly of the University of Alabama.

I had meant to say that "adding too much mass too quickly would obviously cause Ceres to spin down and the weakened gravity well would essentially allow Ceres to spin itself apart".

This was also with the assumption that rockets were being added to the surface, with enough mass to spin Ceres. That mass would cause Ceres to slow down its spin, destabilizing its gravity well, and the rockets would attempt to spin Ceres in that destabilized condition.

[Suicide Junkie]

Reducing spin DOES NOT decrease the gravity by any measureable amount.
The rate at which you add mass means absolutely nothing.

The spin-rockets would have to be landed on the surface carefully, which means matching the spin rate of the surface so as not to plow into the asteroid and leave a crater full of expensive shrapnel. Installing the rockets would not change the spin rate of Ceres, and would increase its mass and angular momentum by an unnoticable fraction.

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Unfortunately, searching for '"Ning Li" site:ua.edu' turns up zero items.
Ning and Li appear separately, though, as different people.

And if you open it to non - University of Alabama sites relating to spin and gravity, you get a buttload of crackpots, alien/UFO sites and such.

I'm sorry, but Newton's laws are the way it is, to great precision on the scales we are talking about.

Again, this is simple grade 9 physics.
Learn the basics, please.

[NullAshton]

Rig up a solar powered superconducting coil, let energy collect, and generate gravity!