Lutetia: an example of prediction of polyhedra in shapes of small cosmic bodies

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The following prediction based on rules of the wave planetology [1-12] was published before the Rosetta spacecraft imaged asteroid Lutetia [13]. "A 100 km long flattened asteroid 21-Lutetia will be imaged by the "Ros etta' s pacecraft in July 2010. Knowing that heavenly bodies are effectively structurized by warping inertia -gravity waves one might expect that Lutetia will not be an exclusion out of a row of bodies subjected to an action of these waves [1-9]. The elliptical keplerian orbits with periodically changing bodies 'accelerations imply inertia -gravity forces applied to any body notwithstanding its size, mass, density, chemical composition, and physical state. These forces produce inertia-gravity waves having in rotating bodied standing character and four direct ions of propagation (orthogonal and diagonal). Interfering these waves produce in bodies three (five) kinds of tectonic blocks: uprising s trongly and moderately (++, +), subsiding deeply and moderately (--, -), and neutral (0) where + and - are compensated. Lengths and amplitudes of warping waves form the harmonic sequence. The fundamental wave1 (long 2πR) ma kes ubiquitous tectonic dichotomy (two antipodean segments or hemispheres: one risen, another fallen). In small bodies this structurization is expressed in their convexo-concave shape: one hemisphere is bulged, another one pressed in. Bulging hemisphere is extended, pressed in hemisphere contracted. This wave shaping tends to transform a globular body into a tetrahedron - the ess entially dichotomous s imp les t Plato's figure. In this polyhedron always there is an oppos ition of extension (a face) to contraction (a vertex). The firs t overtone wave2 (long πR) ma kes tectonic s ectors , als o ris en and fallen, and regularly disposed on (and in) a globe. This regularity is expressed in an octahedron form. The octahedron (diamond) or its parts are often observed in shapes of small bodies with small gravities. Larger bodies with rather strong gravity tend to smooth polyhedron vertices and edges but a polyhedron structurization is always present inside their globes a nd is shown in their tectonics, geomorphology and geophysical fields. The shorter warping waves are also present but because of their comparatively small lengths and amplitudes they are not so important in distorting globes. The presented main harmonic row is complicated by superimposed individual waves lengths of which are inversely proportional to orbital frequencies: higher frequency - smaller wave, and, vice versa, lower frequency - larger wave. In the main asteroid belt the fundamental wave of the ma in s equence and the individual wave (a ls o long 2π R) a re in the s tron gest 1:1 resonance what prohibits an accretion of a real planet because of prevailing debris scattering. Thus, the Lutetia shape can support the main point of the wave planetology - "orbits make s tructures ." [13]. Below are some examples of cosmic polyhedra belonging to small bodies of various classes (asteroids, satellites, comets), s izes and compos itions . Thus , the prediction of Lutetia' s hape (s trengthened by the later Tempel's images ) was bas ed on rathe r representative observations.

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