Efficient early global relaxation of asteroid Vesta

The asteroid Vesta is a differentiated planetesimal from the accretion phase of Solar System formation. Although its present-day shape is dominated by a non-hydrostatic fossil equatorial bulge and two large, mostly unrelaxed impact basins, Vesta may have been able to approach hydrostatic equilibrium...

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Main Authors: Fu, Roger Rennan (Contributor), Hager, Bradford H (Contributor), Ermakov, Anton (Contributor), Zuber, Maria (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Hager, Bradford H. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2017-01-24T16:04:07Z.
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