Whats more common when dealing with asteroids?
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In matters pretaining to their motion- do asteroids tend to spin or no? Is speed a factor?
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Mugaliens
Yes, they rotate (spin). Their orbital velocity is not a factor in their rotation.
JFalz1024
Is it assumed their rotation is determined at some point via a collision?
Atomic-S
The following may be of some little use:
Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It probably does not fully answer your question. A proper study would involve compiling the statistics of asteroid rotation and examining them for correlation with, among other things, orbital parameters and radius. Maybe such a study exists somewhere but I am unaware of it.