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Name that moon!

Post by neufer » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:36 pm

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Answers at: http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003069/
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Re: Name that moon!

Post by orin stepanek » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:02 pm

Lutetia is much larger than Phobos; yet they both look like rocks in a river bed. :) Lutetia to date being the largest asteroid visited. The asteroids Vesta and Ceres to be visited by Dawn will become the largest visited!
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Re: Name that moon!

Post by BMAONE23 » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:05 pm

Interesting to see this perspective from this particular neighborhood
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