Harold Connolly Jr.

And that was something that was indeed forming probably some of the early proto-planets that may have existed.

And once the objects get to a certain size, around 10 kilometers or so in diameter, the internal mechanism begins to turn on for geologic process.

That internal mechanism is heat begins to move around.

That's generated from the decay of radioactivity and pressure.

It becomes a cosmic body.

It begins to melt the ices that were created with it.

It begins to have fluid.

And we call that the early stages of metamorphism in geology.

And the early stages of metamorphosis, that fluid moves through and begins to interact with the minerals that are there.

And it begins to change those minerals and pick up different kinds of chemicals as it's moving through the fluid.

It moves in different parts of the asteroid because it cracks and all kinds of things that happen.

And then what we think happened is that at some point, the poor parent body asteroid gets collided into with something else.

And it stops the process.

So you have a snapshot in geologic time of that moment that all the processes geologically were active.

Wow.

It got knocked up.

It got knocked up.

And, you know, that's it.

Well, yeah, there are also asteroids that have satellites that go around from collisions, most likely so.

Even asteroid Bennu, although we don't have a satellite, didn't find a satellite, it was geologically active on the surface, and we had these explosions that...