That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. In The Expanse, they hollow out and spin up asteroids to use as a space station with centripetal artificial garavity. A typical rubble-pile asteroid would fly apart well before that. Even solid rock couldn't take the forces since they are all tensile.

In the novels, it's described how the asteroids like Ceres have been reinforced internally for precisely that problem. Now the energy requirements to spin up something that massive, that's another issue.

Sorry, I thought you (or the other people reading this thread) might be interested in how asteroids behave in the real world. I wasn't saying that's what was happening in the show.

I didn't mean to come off sounding so harsh. YORP is fascinating stuff, particularly when it can happen to such an extreme degree to make a stable asteroid break up.

I find YORP interesting because it makes things change in a part of the solar system that otherwise might be pretty boring... a lot more interesting than slowly outgassing volatiles and maybe an occasional collision.