I watched the video of Neil’s talk with a 9yo in which Neil says that it may be hard to push some asteroids to move them because they could be made of a dough-like substance. He said if you tried to push it with something smaller than the Doughsteroid itself, then the pushing thing would simply push inside the Doughsteroid without moving the Doughsteroid. My dad asked me if I believed Neil. We wanted to test this for ourselves so I used a BB gun to shoot a Rocksteroid, a PlayDohsteroid, and a ShavingCreamsteroid.  The BBs moved all of them.  The videos of my experiments are … Continue reading Can Neil deGrasse Tyson move a Doughsteroid?