[meteorite-list] new vesta video

Richard Montgomery rickmont at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 20 23:13:40 EDT 2011


Howdy List,

While the 'big depression' on the Vestan south pole has been a major 
focus...what about those wild grooves???

I see visions of a spinning Vesta grinding against another twin, gouging 
grooves in a dance....a low gravity parlay perhaps analogous to a 
high-school bump and grind, the two spinning against each other....which 
begs the obvious question:  where is the partner in grind??

Should we not expect to eventually find trailing remnants of both in those 
tell-tale grooves?

-Richard Montgomery




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: "Mike Hankey" <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
Cc: "meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new vesta video


> Hi Mike:
>
> I assume that you meant to say slick (hope that I am not putting words in
> your mouth).
>
> I have played this video several times and it is clear how much can be
> said about Vesta by the narrator without giving any scientific
> interpretation of it! I realize that there is always the mandate that
> little is said without an official press release or the published papers
> with the first results, but to say only that there is a "depression" at
> the south pole, a huge crater (known for many years) and probably the main
> source of most HED meteorites, leaves one wanting for at least some
> interpretation of what one is seeing.
>
> Larry
>
>> i didn't see this posted to the list yet. pretty sick video.
>>
>> http://www.space.com/12998-asteroid-vesta-video-nasa-dawn-spacecraft.html
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