According to Weiss, Lutetia is a case of arrested development. The asteroid may have reached a size large enough to develop and retain a melting core, and then simply avoided the larger collisions that accelerated planet formation.
- Battered asteroid may have warm core, Web.MIT.Edu, October 28, 2011.
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