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Do asteroids fall apart

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Yes. Often the shearing pressure of traveling through space causes the asteroid to splinter or split. Collision with many many tiny objects in space causes stress to the asteroid as well. The tiny differences in gravitational pulls can also cause asteroids to slowly fall apart.

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