on the 10 july 2010 the rosetta spacecraft passed the lutetia asteroid. unlike regular asteroids which are usually broken remnants of planets, lutetia might be a whole, unbroken building block left almost intact since the birth of the solar system. it is thought that lutetia has one of the highest densities ever measured, it is denser than graphite and may have heavy metals in its core.
[this information was gleaned from an article by lisa grossman]john ward knox
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