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very cool. Hmmm MC weren't you going to to do a space game? <br>
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>From: Liz Bowman [eyebowman@hotmail.com]<br>
>Sent: 7/22/2010 11:22:07 AM<br>
>To: krononauts@mimesisrpg.com<br>
>Subject: Re: [Krononauts] Asteroid Comparison Chart<br>
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>Just thought you guys might find this interesting<br>
><br>
>From Bad Astronomy, I quote the blog post:<br>
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>"Emily Lakdawalla — scientist, blogger, and all around cool chick — has just<br>
>posted a totally awesome scale diagram comparing every asteroid and comet<br>
>visited by spacecraft. It features pictures of all the rocks, each of which she<br>
>has carefully resized so you can see just how big they are relative to each<br>
>other..."<br>
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>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/20/asteroid-comparison-chart<br>
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>"Whoa. Look how big Lutetia, just visited by Rosetta, is compared to everything<br>
>else! And yet, at 130 km across, it’s a dot compared to our Moon. In fact, you<br>
>could smash together all the known asteroids in the main belt between Mars and<br>
>Jupiter and they’d be far smaller than our rocky satellite.<br>
><br>
>Still, small doesn’t mean "uninteresting". These rocks in Emily’s diagram are<br>
>all fascinating beasts, and the more we learn about them the more compelling<br>
>they become. And there’s more to come, with the Dawn mission about to see the<br>
>big asteroids Vesta and Ceres up close… and go read Emily’s blog about this to<br>
>see how they’d fit on the diagram (hint, they don’t, and by a long shot). You’ll<br>
>also find a much larger version of the diagram there, and you really, really<br>
>should look at it. Wow."<br>
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