Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters

Friday, April 17, 2020 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can degrade and erase small craters on the surface of asteroids, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist James Richardson says. 

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