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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Asteroidal Satellites (was Re: Toutatis Captured by Radar Images)
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:28:09 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.112809.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- References: <20JAN199301453454@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <3191@tymix.Tymnet.COM> <C18v5H.6oA@well.sf.ca.us>
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- In article <C18v5H.6oA@well.sf.ca.us>, metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
- > And the only way that asteroids can get lots of satellites orbiting
- > them with anything like the observed abundance is in the explosive breakup
- > of a much larger parent body. The prediction that asteroid satellites are
- > numerous and commonplace originates from the exploded planet hypothesis.
-
- A favorite Van Flandern hobbyhorse, I know. Tom, it's probably too
- early to ask this question, but I'll ask anyway: How well could
- Ostro's group detect or rule out satellites of Toutatis using their
- radars?
-
- Is this a good way to search for evidence of asteroidal satellites?
-
- "Do you know the asteroids, Mr.Kemp?... Bill Higgins
- Hundreds of thousands of them. All
- wandering around the Sun in strange Fermilab
- orbits. Some never named, never
- charted. The orphans of the Solar higgins@fnal.fnal.gov
- System, Mr. Kemp."
- higgins@fnal.bitnet
- "And you want to become a father."
- --*Moon Zero Two* SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS
-