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Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm

Russell, C. T.; Raymond, C. A.; Coradini, A.; McSween, H. Y.; Zuber, M. T.; Nathues, A.; de Sanctis, M. C.; Jaumann, R.; Konopliv, A. S.; Preusker, F.; Asmar, S. W.; Park, R. S.; Gaskell, R.; Keller, H. U.; Mottola, S.; Roatsch, T.; Scully, J. E. C.; Smith, D. E.; Tricarico, P.; Toplis, M. J.; Christensen, U. R.; Feldman, W. C.; Lawrence, D. J.; McCoy, Timothy J.; Prettyman, T. H.; Reedy, R. C.; Sykes, M. E.; Titus, T. N. (2012)

The Dawn spacecraft targeted 4 Vesta, believed to be a remnant intact protoplanet from the earliest epoch of solar system formation, based on analyses of howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites that indicate a ...
Pitted Terrain on Vesta and Implications for the Presence of Volatiles

Denevi, B. W.; Blewett, D. T.; Buczkowski, D. L.; Capaccioni, F.; Capria, M. T.; de Sanctis, M. C.; Garry, W. B.; Gaskell, R. W.; Le Corre, L.; Li, J. Y.; Marchi, S.; McCoy, Timothy J.; Nathues, A.; O'Brien, D. P.; Petro, N. E.; Pieters, C. M.; Preusker, F.; Raymond, C. A.; Reddy, V.; Russell, C. T.; Schenk, P.; Scully, J. E. C.; Sunshine, J. M.; Tosi, F.; Williams, D. A.; Wyrick, D. (2012)

We investigated the origin of unusual pitted terrain on asteroid Vesta, revealed in images from the Dawn spacecraft. Pitted terrain is characterized by irregular rimless depressions found in and around several impact ...

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