asteroid

Jeff Wilson · 27 Dec 2010, 04:03 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:03:16 -0600
Subject: (urth) asteroid
In-Reply-To: <332819.97613.qm at web58208.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References: <332819.97613.qm at web58208.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4D181004.2030707 at io.com>

On 12/26/2010 2:42 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> yeah I remembered that but what EXACTLY is an asteroid? It's in orbit
> around the sun. Not sure the difference between the classification of a
> satellite and an asteroid except perhaps that asteroids are orbiting the
> sun and not a planet. At least one asteroid I know has its own moon,
> which doesn't help us. Never could get a grip on how big the whorl was.
> ripped off from some internet site:

If you check the archives, there was considerable discusssion of the 
Whorl's possible sizes and shapes in Jan 2009. Short answer: while it is 
a hollow body made from an asteroid, it need not be the same dimensions 
as the original asteroid.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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