Are we reading about, and looking at, a captured comet?
1 posted on
07/15/2005 7:14:12 AM PDT by
LRS
To: LRS
A loofah Sponge or a pumice stone?......
2 posted on
07/15/2005 7:15:40 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(HURRICANES: God's way of telling you it's time to clean out the freezer...............)
To: LRS
3 posted on
07/15/2005 7:17:56 AM PDT by
TommyDale
To: KevinDavis
5 posted on
07/15/2005 7:25:10 AM PDT by
SunTzuWu
To: LRS
> ... a captured comet?
Interesting. Unlike Tempel's size, Hyperion (according to the NASA site) is 204 by 162 by 132 miles, and it's spongy (in Jupiter's gravity) rather than powdery (in the Sun's gravity).
I don't know where to take it from here....
7 posted on
07/15/2005 7:45:38 AM PDT by
cloud8
(Everybody does it, right?)
To: 75thOVI; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; CGVet58; chilepepper; ckilmer; Eastbound; ...
"Possible former comet" ping. Not a ping list though. :')
9 posted on
07/16/2005 10:43:47 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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