[meteorite-list] Fw: New Issue: Granite-like rocks on Vesta

[Jerry Flaherty]

List/Darren you had asked once about granite. I don't remember if was a 
compositional or an origin issue.
I do know that granite's crystaline structure results from slow cooling 
under monumental pressures [substantially 5 miles of overburden is a 
commonly mentioned denominator-often referred to as "the roots of 
mountains".
So what if anything does this tell us about Vesta's possible history?
Jerry Flaherty
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> New article online: The Complicated Geologic History of Asteroid 4 Vesta
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> -- Meteorites from asteroid 4 Vesta show that it contains patches of 
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