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by TeMPOraL 3202 days ago
> Spinning up Ceres to provide internal gravity ...

Spinning a rock can be done over long periods of time. In The Expanse, it was a decades-long project, that earned the Tycho Corporation some serious engineering cred.

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Spinning up asteroids can't be done. The speed you'd need for significant gravity would rip the asteroid apart.
[citation needed]