(urth) As the Whorl Turns

[Jeffrey Brent McBeth]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:01:06PM -0600, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
> This indicates the original asteroid was massive enough to flatten gross  
> irregularities into a plainlike smoothness, and of a sufficient scale  
> for its spheroidal curvature to look like a plain at Silk's distance  
> from it.

You should be able to get a reasonable estimate of the interior
cross-section of the asteroid from the fire descriptions in BotSS

Jeff

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