I was reminded today of this paper from 2024:
Schorghofer et al. 2024, "History of Ceres’s Cold Traps Based on Refined Shape Models" - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad3639
Describing how water ice moves around cold traps on Ceres on a timescale of thousands of years.
Ceres keeps acting more like the Moon or a small terrestrial planet than like the smaller asteroids.
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