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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t buy the explanation for the grooves. We see similar grooves on plenty of other low gravity bodies in the solar system.

My theory is still low angle low speed impacts that roll along the surface.


6 posted on 11/22/2015 6:46:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: cripplecreek
I don't buy the explanation for the grooves. We see similar grooves on plenty of other low gravity bodies in the solar system. My theory is still low angle low speed impacts that roll along the surface.

Roll marks in what? The regolith? Does it even have such loose material on its surface?

9 posted on 11/22/2015 6:57:56 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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I agree, that’s how it rolls.


29 posted on 11/22/2015 10:59:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: cripplecreek
This guy did them


32 posted on 11/22/2015 11:09:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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