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Thanks for your excellent work posting both this photo, and the multiple previous ones. I thoroughly enjoy your work.
Keith.
Most non-metallic asteroids do break up when approaching a planet (as Shoemaker colliding with Jupiter), even more so when there is an atmosphere involved, that's what produces crater-chains. Valles Marineris on Mars may be the result of a large crater-chain.Doum wrote:it seem weak enought that it can collapse and disperse itself just by the effect of strong gravity of a planet if it came close to one. Can that asteroid be easy to destroy by a bomb if it were to come close to earth? Is it as fragile as it seem? And can it be thug?
Most comets and asteroids do not have physical make up to create crater chains, that’s why they are "rare", but some wandering bodies must be made of uniform sized, low cohesion chunks, and with a rotation inline with its decent ... Crater-Chains!craterchains wrote:While many accept the "rubble pile" comet theory as to the cause of crater chains, I do not.