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by tbranch
Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Cratering on Dione question (APOD 01 August 2007)
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Dione moving slower than other bodies?

Perhaps this is a naive thought, but one explanation for more craters on the trailing side of Dione, is that Dione is orbiting more slowly than other debris, and therefore the debris hits it from behind rather than Dione hitting the debris.