Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..269c&link_type=abstract
In its Twenty-fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1: A-F p 269-270 (SEE N94-12015 01-91)
Physics
Asteroid Belts, Cratering, Planetary Craters, Planetary Surfaces, Flyby Missions, Galileo Spacecraft
Scientific paper
The October 1991 Galileo flyby of Gaspra shows that its crater population is dominated by fresh craters several hundred meters in diameter and smaller. They appear to represent a production population because the spatial density is relatively low (few overlaps) and because fresh craters are very abundant; equilibrium could be attained at diameters near to or below the resolution limit of the best image. These craters are the first direct record of the population of main-belt asteroids some tens of meters in diameter. Craters primarily from the highest resolution, 'high phase' image, on which over 600 craters are visible in 90 sq. km were counted, measured, and classified; earlier counts were made on the lower resolution four-color images, which show an order of magnitude fewer craters because of the resolution limit. The population index (exponent of the differential power law approximately describing the crater sizes) has a very high negative value (-4.3 +/- 0.3, meaning that the log-log slope is 'steep'), appreciably steeper than the value of -3.5 thought to reflect collisional equilibrium according to theory.
Belton Michael
Chapman Clark R.
Gerhard Neukum
Veverka Joseph
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