Calculating the Potato Radius of Asteroids using the Height of Mt. Everest — mentioned by azernik

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:37:23 GMT

According to quite a lot of comparative planetary geology work, Mt. Everest, Mauna Kea, etc. are pretty close to the height limit imposed by gravity and structural strength. On some objects (like Mercury or the Moon: see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.04297.pdf) there aren't any mountains high enough to hit that limit, but Earth seems to have active enough tectonics to push up at that limit despite weathering.

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Calculating the Potato Radius of Asteroids using the Height of Mt. Everest — mentioned by azernik