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, Hager, Bradford H, Ermakov, Anton, Zuber, Maria
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106596
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-2676
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-8017