[meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

From: Carl 's <carloselguapo1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:44:59 -0700
Message-ID: <COL101-W350AE2196921740CAFB91E9BB80_at_phx.gbl>

Hi Sterling,

Looking at thes pictures, Lucretia does look smooth with the exception of a few small (more recent) craters near the top.
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM44DZOFBG_index_1.html
 
 
Carl2


Sterling wrote:
>...If the impactor was weak and Lutetia was strong, the
tilty impact slow, wouldn't Lutetia be covered with
perhaps a miles-thick layer of regolith from the disrupted
impactor?...
Received on Mon 12 Jul 2010 12:44:59 PM PDT