I like this radius. It explains some of why asteroids are lumpy and bumpy, kind of like potatoes, and yet planets and moons are smooth round balls.

From the potato radius size, about 2–300km, the mass of the rock itself gets large enough that it is pulled in on its own gravity and consequently starts to round itself off.

I learned about this from Brian Cox’s show Forces of Nature.

Not sure about asteroids, meteors and meteorites?

The potato radius

In direct democracy the people vote directly to create the laws, rules and regulations and such. In representative democracy, the people instead vote to elect a representative, who will then either act directly, or vote with other elected representatives to create the laws, rules and regulations and such. Most democracies are a form of representative democracy as I understand it, with the occasional instance of direct democracy thrown in, as in say, a referendum.

Direct and representative democracy

Shares information passively, with the neat effect that having a good one in an office can go a long way to getting people on the same page without explicitly calling meetings or sending out updates to do so. Handy to also have a good space in front of it for talking, discussing and generally collaborating. A common term in agile development, originally I believe from Alistair Cockburn of Thoughtworks. To quote from his article, of many possible:

- Is large and easily visible to the casual, interested observer
- Is understood at a glance
- Changes periodically, so that it is worth visiting
- Is easily kept up to date”

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Information radiator