"Collisional models predict a lot more of these craters." -Patricio Salvador Zain
- The slide at 2:00 demonstrates that the belt is divided into six parts, six separate neighborhoods, that are all in resonance, meaning the individuals will rarely collide with anything big. At least not naturally.
- At 6:10 we learn that Ceres is strangely depleted of large impact craters. That's what killed the old asteroid belt model. It's a direct discovery from the wildly successful DAWN mission.
- At 13:40 you see that Ceres is mostly impacted by objects from the outer belt, and second from Ceres' own neighborhood, the middle-belt. While Vesta the dominant asteroid/dwarf planet in the inner belt, is least impacted by it's own neighborhood, although all six belts are about the same. This has to do with asteroids still working themselves into a sustainable resonance. The ones that haven't got there are the ones most likely to impact something, and they most likely will come from closest to Mars.
- Conclusions at 16:20
This LPI was made because previous assumptions about the asteroid belt don't fit the observations. And you can tell from the speakers presentation, that the now updated model will still evolve with time and more observations.
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