Made of craters

Stephen Battersby

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6639, 232-232

Abstract: Mathilde is a very odd asteroid. The NEAR spacecraft, in a recent flyby, found it remarkably lightweight, very dark, and covered with enormous craters. How has it survived the hugeimpacts that made those craters? And how has it come to rotate so slowly (once in 17.4 days),when the same impacts should have left it spinning?

Date: 1997
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