2003 EL61, News ... |
2003 EL61, News ... |
Mar 14 2007, 09:14 PM
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Mike Brown ... and his team discovered that five small Kuiper belt objects were travelling in similar orbits to 2003 EL61, the third-largest KBO ever found. The discovery hinted that the five pieces are fragments that split off after an ancient collision. ---------- - Icy chips off the old asteroid block -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Sep 5 2007, 09:18 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Nice teaser in that abstract about fresh surfaces being incompatible with the derived age of the 2003EL61 group. Is he trying to imply active cryovolcanic processes on the larger KBOs, perhaps...?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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