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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: cripplecreek

It looks like conglomerate with striations produced by distinct layers as it gathered dust or formed in layers before it broke away form a larger object


7 posted on 08/02/2011 4:51:47 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Flash mobs are trickle down leftwing REDISTRIBUTION))
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