Reply to post: Re: "its surface only had two meager craters"

Move over Ceres! There's a new, smaller dwarf planet in town called Hygiea

Tom 7

Re: "its surface only had two meager craters"

Why more impact craters? Its gravity wont be enough to attract anything with enough speed to make an impact and most of the debris near it would be moving in a similar orbit. Anything moving fast enough to make much of an impact crater would be more likely to kick it out of its orbit or destroy it completely.

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