Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on Jan 3, 2019 8:53:16 GMT
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Master Cartographer
April 2015 - Apr 18, 2024 17:16:03 GMT
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Post by syzygy on Jan 29, 2019 13:36:20 GMT
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Master Cartographer
April 2015 - Apr 18, 2024 17:16:03 GMT
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Post by syzygy on Jun 6, 2019 12:50:28 GMT
now, after NASA has reported, results were published in Science, also the object (pair) is well detailed on wikipedia let me take 2 notes on surface features of Ultima Thule: the "Road to nowhere" looked so artificial-, also I found the brighter contact zone so interesting, that I could not resist to cook up my own concept...(: as my thesis; the two lobes are not cohered very hard and after smaller impact events the two "potatoes" can start to wobble, -and because of their "round" shape- to twist and turn on each other until friction and tidal forces get system back to quiescence. such "rolling" movement of the smaller body can carve round shape features on the surface of the bigger lobe as the "Road to nowhere" or what we recently see to be formed around the "neck" section, also friction can grind the rock surfaces into "powder", what we see accumulated at the contact zone. between two low-angle impacts -which can cause rotating movements- might come another from "above" that can make lobes to bounce one small, and after another "light-touchdown" and period of commotion, equilibrium come again. *** any comments on this welcome!
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