Asteriod WMPH would have appeared like something that had been
squashed together using different pieces / types of rocks, ice and other planetary
elements. It would also have appear like the large asteroid had been smashed by a much
larger object or piece of debris during planetary formation or accretion, but was then
reassembled back together unevenly by gravitational forces. |
This process of separating and coming back together could be explained as a jigsaw, in its
early life it would have been like a normal asteroid, but once it broke apart (because of
a possible collision), coming back together the pieces didn't fit so they were squashed
together in an unstable fashion. This reassembly of Asteroid WMPH would have left it's
interior (a mixture of rock and ice material) under the process of differentiation where
it's denser rock (in the center of the asteroid) would sink inward while the lighter ice
substances (on the outside) would move outwards to the edge. On Asteroid WMPH this
process, for some reason, was halted and this process was never quite finished leaving the
asteroid in it's current state or unstableness and topography.
The surface of this asteroid would have huge fault canyons that would stretch for
miles etched across its surface, caused when the asteroid was incorrectly flung back
together into one. Also large grooved structure called coronae (features in planetary
geology) would also cover the surface because of the upwelling of the light materials from
the process of differentiation.
Regio on the asteroids surface were the large areas of the asteroids surface that
are strongly differentiated in colour or albedo, this was because of the asteroids coming
back together when it was originally in pieces from a deep impact or other occurrence. |
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