Esmail Bonakdarian schrieb:
Matthew Ota wrote:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...ature_404.html

I always had a hunch that this World Ceres would be shaped like a
baseball....


This looks almost fake being so perfectly spherical .. am I missing
something
here? I thought asteroids were kind of jagged pieces of rock ...

Not the big ones. The smaller they get, the more they look like
potatoes. Even Vesta looks rather spherical, apart from the big impact
crater on the south pole (this is the place where most HED meteorites -
like NWA 1109 - are said to come from)

Best,
Bernhard
http://theastronomers.com