Publication Date:
1994-09-09
Description:
The first images of the asteroid 243 Ida from Galileo show an irregular object measuring 56-kilometers by 24 kilometers by 21 kilometers. Its surface is rich in geologic features, including systems of grooves, blocks, chutes, albedo features, crater chains, and a full range of crater morphologies. The largest blocks may be distributed nonuniformly across the surface; lineaments and dark-floored craters also have preferential locations. Ida is interpreted to have a substantial regolith. The high crater density and size-frequency distribution (-3 differential power-law index) indicate a surface in equilibrium with saturated cratering. A minimum model crater age for Ida-and therefore for the Koronis family to which Ida belongs-is estimated at 1 billion years, older than expected.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Belton, M J -- Chapman, C R -- Veverka, J -- Klaasen, K P -- Harch, A -- Greeley, R -- Greenberg, R -- Head, J W 3rd -- McEwen, A -- Morrison, D -- Thomas, P C -- Davies, M E -- Carr, M H -- Neukum, G -- Fanale, F P -- Davis, D R -- Anger, C -- Gierasch, P J -- Ingersoll, A P -- Pilcher, C B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Sep 9;265(5178):1543-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17801529" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
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Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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