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To: SunkenCiv; RadioAstronomer; sionnsar
...spectra of Ida and Dactyl are very similar they are nevertheless distinctly different; Dactyl is not simply a chunk of Ida.

So they're not just an old peradactyls flying through space?
16 posted on 06/18/2006 7:42:00 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Dactyl is not simply a chunk of Ida.

Dactyl is a chunk of a much larger asteroid named Ptera.

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18 posted on 06/18/2006 7:45:21 PM PDT by Lurker (When decadence pervades the corridors of power, depravity walks the side streets.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Seems like Ida read something about that by now.

[rimshot!]


21 posted on 06/18/2006 8:14:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be." -- Frank A. Clark)
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