The spatial distribution of impact craters on Ryugu

Hirata, Naoyuki; Morota, Tomokatsu; Cho, Yuichiro; Kanamaru, Masanori; Watanabe, Sei-ichiro; Sugita, Seiji; Hirata, Naru; Yamamoto, Yukio; Noguchi, Rina; Shimaki, Yuri; Tatsumi, Eri; Yoshioka, Kazuo; Sawada, Hirotaka; Yokota, Yasuhiro; Sakatani, Naoya; Hayakawa, Masahiko; Matsuoka, Moe; Honda, Rie; Kameda, Shingo; Yamada, Manabu; Kouyama, Toru; Suzuki, Hidehiko; Honda, Chikatoshi; Ogawa, Kazunori; Tsuda, Yuichi; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Saiki, Takanao; Tanaka, Satoshi; Terui, Fuyuto; Nakazawa, Satoru; Kikuchi, Shota; Yamaguchi, Tomohiro; Ogawa, Naoko; Ono, Go; Mimasu, Yuya; Yoshikawa, Kent; Takahashi, Tadateru; Takei, Yuto; Fujii, Atsushi; Takeuchi, Hiroshi; Okada, Tatsuaki; Shirai, Kei; Iijima, Yu-ichi
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Fecha de publicación:
3
2020
Revista
Número de autores
43
Número de autores del IAC
1
Número de citas
15
Número de citas referidas
15
Descripción
Asteroid 162173 Ryugu has numerous craters. The initial measurement of impact craters on Ryugu, by Sugita et al. (2019), is based on Hayabusa2 ONC images obtained during the first month after the arrival of Hayabusa2 in June 2018. Utilizing new images taken until February 2019, we constructed a global impact crater catalogue of Ryugu, which includes all craters larger than 20 m in diameter on the surface of Ryugu. As a result, we identified 77 craters on the surface of Ryugu. Ryugu shows variation in crater density which cannot be explained by the randomness of cratering; there are more craters at lower latitudes and fewer at higher latitudes, and fewer craters in the western bulge (160°E - 290°E) than in the region around the meridian (300°E - 30°E). This variation implies a complicated geologic history for Ryugu. It seems that the variation in crater density indicates that the equatorial ridge located in the western hemisphere is relatively young, while that located in the eastern hemisphere is a fossil structure formed during the short rotational period in the distant past.
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