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Even if they are "solid" at a human sized scale they are effectively liquid on a planetary scale. Gravity is just so much stronger than the internal stiffness at that scale that they behave as if they are a liquid with effectively no interal stiffness. That's why as you get smaller down to moons and asteroids you start to se shapes that arent spheres, the materials strength has sufficient strength to be able to resist gravity at those scales and the material is acting more like a solid.
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