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Asteroids provide fundamental clues to the formation and evolution of planetesimals. Collisional models based on the depletion of the primordial main belt of asteroids predict 10–15 craters >400 km should have formed on Ceres, the largest object between Mars and Jupiter, over the last 4.55 Gyr. Likewise, an extrapolation from the asteroid Vesta would require at least 6–7 such basins.
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- Marchi, S. (Author)
- Ermakov, A. I. (Author)
- Raymond, C. A. (Author)
- Fu, R. R. (Author)
- O'Brien, D. P. (Author)
- Bland, M. T. (Author)
- Ammannito, E. (Author)
- De Sanctis, M. C. (Author)
- Bowling, T. (Author)
- Schenk, P. (Author)
- Scully, J. E. C. (Author)
- Buczkowski, D. L. (Author)
- Williams, David (Author)
- Hiesinger, H. (Author)
- Russell, C. T. (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
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- Digital object identifier: 10.1038/ncomms12257
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Marchi, S., Ermakov, A. I., Raymond, C. A., Fu, R. R., O’Brien, D. P., Bland, M. T., . . . Russell, C. T. (2016). The missing large impact craters on Ceres. Nature Communications, 7, 12257. doi:10.1038/ncomms12257