Evidence for Thermal Metamorphism or Partial Differentiation of Asteroid 21 Lutetia from Rosetta

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.2077w&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.2077

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Observations of asteroid 21 Lutetia by the Rosetta spacecraft indicate
that its surface resembles some chondrites, yet its density is like that
of the differentiated asteroid 4 Vesta. This suggests that Lutetia may
be partially differentiated.

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