A Radar image of 2004 BL86 showing it has a tiny moon. (Image hosted on Universe Today)
Posted on 01/29/2015 1:36:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
Using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii they discovered that the speedy “space mountain” has a composition similar to the very island from which they made their observations – basalt.
“Our observations show that this asteroid has a spectrum similar to V-type asteroids,” said Reddy. “V-type asteroids are basalt, similar in composition to lava flows we see in Hawaii.
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These are the same materials that not only compose earthly basalts – all that dark volcanic rock that underlies Hawaii’s reefs and resorts – but also Vesta, considered the source of V-type asteroids. It’s thought that the impact that hollowed out the vast Rheasilvia crater at Vesta’s south pole blasted chunks of mama asteroid into space to create a family of smaller siblings called vestoids.
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Both are moving through Space at blistering speeds in multiple directions around our Sun while orbiting around the Milky Way while accelerating through our Universe.
There is no known manner in which the two can meet peacefully.
Barak Obama was born on neither one of them?
+1
Too bad we didn’t send him away with the asteroid — he could have played golf like a champ there.
A Radar image of 2004 BL86 showing it has a tiny moon. (Image hosted on Universe Today)
Looks like the Millennium Falcon.
dat de comet ain’t no made o shave ice, bruh!
We been cockoroached again.
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