# Whorl an asteroid (was Re: Blue/Green == Urth/Moon???) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Oct 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *07 Oct 1997, 15:24* > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, John Eric Ivancich wrote: > In looking through the archives, people have referred to the Whorl as > a hollowed out asteroid. My image of it is as a cylinder, perhaps > obviously man-made when viewed externally. Did I miss the evidence > for this asteroid view? I think people were just assuming it, because it seems like the easiest and most obvious way to make something like the Whorl. -Rostrum ---