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Small Body Grooves - Redux, Vesta bets?
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post Mar 30 2011, 01:06 AM
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Anyone seen any published papers out there on the grooves yet?

Thinking we are going to see them on Vesta......
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post Mar 30 2011, 06:01 PM
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If the grooves were of the same scale they are on Phobos, they'd probably be big enough for Hubble to spot them anyway (assuming the bottom crater is their source).
They're either smaller or not there at all: Dawn will prove it of course.
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- Morganism   Small Body Grooves - Redux   Mar 30 2011, 01:06 AM
- - stevesliva   Vesta's pretty much another order of magnitude...   Mar 30 2011, 01:38 AM
- - Morganism   Am trying to keep an eye out for binary asteroids,...   Mar 30 2011, 02:06 AM
- - elakdawalla   OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict ...   Mar 30 2011, 04:45 AM
|- - tedstryk   If it is indeed a relatively intact piece of a pro...   Mar 30 2011, 01:52 PM
- - Explorer1   If the grooves were of the same scale they are on ...   Mar 30 2011, 06:01 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Have you seen the Hubble images of Vesta? It woul...   Mar 30 2011, 08:05 PM
- - Explorer1   Yeah, I was just exaggerating quite a bit; we...   Mar 30 2011, 10:51 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   My wild guess is yes, there will be some grooves o...   Mar 31 2011, 05:14 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   I'd say it's going to have cratering simil...   Mar 31 2011, 05:30 AM
- - algorimancer   Getting a little side-tracked here... but if the d...   Mar 31 2011, 02:57 PM
- - antipode   A recent Icarus paper posited that Vesta might be ...   Mar 31 2011, 10:02 PM
- - DDAVIS   I wonder if there are maria basalts in some lowlan...   Apr 1 2011, 10:10 AM
- - Morganism   Dang, this crater chain and groove thing is start...   Apr 5 2011, 12:23 AM
- - Phil Stooke   That infection can be treated! Phil   Apr 5 2011, 02:27 PM
- - Morganism   sure looks like two sets of grooves on the long wi...   Jun 17 2011, 11:15 PM

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