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The Geologically Recent Giant Impact Basins at Vesta’s South Pole

Overview of attention for article published in Science, May 2012
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Title
The Geologically Recent Giant Impact Basins at Vesta’s South Pole
Published in
Science, May 2012
DOI 10.1126/science.1223272
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Authors

Paul Schenk, David P. O’Brien, Simone Marchi, Robert Gaskell, Frank Preusker, Thomas Roatsch, Ralf Jaumann, Debra Buczkowski, Thomas McCord, Harry Y. McSween, David Williams, Aileen Yingst, Carol Raymond, Chris Russell

Abstract

Dawn's global mapping of Vesta reveals that its observed south polar depression is composed of two overlapping giant impact features. These large basins provide exceptional windows into impact processes at planetary scales. The youngest, Rheasilvia, is 500 kilometers wide and 19 kilometers deep and finds its nearest morphologic analog among large basins on low-gravity icy satellites. Extensive ejecta deposits occur, but impact melt volume is low, exposing an unusual spiral fracture pattern that is likely related to faulting during uplift and convergence of the basin floor. Rheasilvia obliterated half of another 400-kilometer-wide impact basin, Veneneia. Both basins are unexpectedly young, roughly 1 to 2 billion years, and their formation substantially reset Vestan geology and excavated sufficient volumes of older compositionally heterogeneous crustal material to have created the Vestoids and howardite-eucrite-diogenite meteorites.

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Country Count As %
France 2 3%
Japan 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 75 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 29%
Researcher 23 29%
Professor 6 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 7 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 40 50%
Physics and Astronomy 27 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Design 1 1%
Unknown 11 14%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2023.
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#963,037
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#17,539
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#134
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