[meteorite-list] Cassini VIMS Team Finds That Phoebe May Be Kin To Comets

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

>>..."One intriguing result of the VIMS measurements is the discovery of
possible chemical similarities between the materials on Phoebe and
those seen on comets," said VIMS team leader Robert H. Brown of the
University of Arizona...

>>...That Phoebe likely comes from the Kuiper belt and not from the
Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt is another "first" for the Cassini mission,
Brown noted. Cassini has become the first spacecraft to flyby a Kuiper
belt object, he said...

Congratulations to this group, big time, what a feat and imaging going over 
the spoils of victory !!  ... though it may have slipped by or not considered 
(??) Voyager 2's 40,000 km flyby of Triton a "Kuiper" object, but if this were 
really a "first" prize for Cassini, then what would that be for Stardust's 
Wild(2) daring 236 km flyby?, chopped liver? :)  

Saludos, Doug




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