[meteorite-list] Parent bodies

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1319837955.30368.YahooMailClassic_at_web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello everyone -

http://www.esa. int/esaCP/ SEMG93HURTG_ index_0.html

Asteroid Lutetia: postcard from the past
European Space Agency
27 October 2011

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive
body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results
from Rosetta's fleeting flyby also suggest that this mini-world tried to
grow a metal heart. (more...)

Ed
Received on Fri 28 Oct 2011 05:39:15 PM PDT