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To: KevinDavis

WOW

the rotation video is awsome...more important to me than the pock marks are the GROOVES or rills or rifling or whatever you call it that is clearly visable around the middle while it rotates.... and you wonder if it once had a prolonged engagement with another large body kind of like 2 gears engaging each other...


3 posted on 08/02/2011 3:48:17 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

The grooved surface must be fairly common. I know the martian moons have the same surface feature.

My theory is that they result from a small body impacting at a low angle and rolling along the surface in the low gravity.


4 posted on 08/02/2011 4:32:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Vaquero

Perhaps a prolonged heating-cooling cycle in the grip of a larger body? The pitting on the one face and the smoothness of the other are very interesting.

This fellow has had an interesting time...


5 posted on 08/02/2011 4:37:48 AM PDT by BrewingFrog (I brew, therefore I am!)
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