As the Whorl Turns

Jeffrey Brent McBeth · 27 Jan 2009, 19:18 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: mcbeth at broggs.org (Jeffrey Brent McBeth)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:18:20 -0500
Subject: (urth) As the Whorl Turns
In-Reply-To: <497F4BE2.9090906 at io.com>
References: <338614.74880.qm at web180010.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
	<611723.54591.qm at web37607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<273409710901261648q373d559cmb0b05dd28c618ea5 at mail.gmail.com>
	<497F4BE2.9090906 at io.com>
Message-ID: <20090127191820.GA12532 at broggs.org>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:01:06PM -0600, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
> This indicates the original asteroid was massive enough to flatten gross  
> irregularities into a plainlike smoothness, and of a sufficient scale  
> for its spheroidal curvature to look like a plain at Silk's distance  
> from it.

You should be able to get a reasonable estimate of the interior
cross-section of the asteroid from the fire descriptions in BotSS

Jeff

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