re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say?

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Doug Ellison — 9/12/2005 7:49:27 AM (archived)

I'm no expert, but..

Dont expect something like a baby Eros. This body is TINY - 800m across - so any sort of impacting event big enough to leave a large crater would have smashed it apart.

I'm sure very up-close imaging will show us lots of smaller craters though.

Doug

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Asteroid Itokawa was once a tiny point of light in a telescope...No more. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/10/2005 5:46:50 PM
- view from 30 km -- wow - JimO - 9/11/2005 1:42:08 PM
  - TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/12/2005 12:19:55 AM
    - re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Doug Ellison - 9/12/2005 7:49:27 AM
      - re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Chris Vancil - 9/12/2005 8:03:47 AM
        
        re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Doug Ellison - 9/12/2005 1:04:45 PM
        
        I wonder if Braille looks a lot like Itokawa? - LJK - 9/15/2005 2:46:29 PM
- That should be 1.5 arc minutes. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/11/2005 1:34:10 AM
  - JAXA Report - Hayabusa arrives at Itokawa, starts hovering operations - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:28:32 PM
    - Thermal infrared observations of the Hayabusa spacecraft target asteroid 25143 Itokawa - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:08:54 PM

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