I searched through the records and was able to locate more images of
the mystery object. The quality of two were poor, but I was able to
process them and get some pretty reasonable enhancement. The other
pair was perfect for the job and yielded excellent images, better than
those that NASA has published.
From there, I created a stereo pair and found out a good part of the
answer. I am attaching three images for you- one is the smaller,
enhanced view (a very good picture) and the other is a close-up of the
same. The third is a cross-eyed stereo pair that shows a good portion
of the answer to the question, "what are we seeing?"
I am presently creating a 3D solid model so I can map the image on it
and rotate it around.