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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Elsevier,
2017-01-24T16:04:07Z.
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