Ancient Asteroid Impact Shifted Jupiter’s Largest Moon

Kobe University researcher Naoyuki Hirata was the first to discover that an asteroid impact on Jupiter's moon Ganymede occurred almost exactly on the meridian farthest from Jupiter. This finding suggested that Ganymede had experienced a reorientation of its rotational axis, enabling Hirata to calculate the type of impact that could have caused this shift.
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