Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8133683 | Icarus | 2019 | 28 Pages |
Abstract
Understanding the collisional fragmentation and subsequent reaccumulation of fragments is crucial for studies of the formation and evolution of the small-body populations. Using an SPH / N-body approach, we investigate the size-frequency distributions (SFDs) resulting from the disruption of 100â¯km-diameter targets consisting of porous material, including the effects of pore-crushing as well as friction. Overall, the porous targets have a significantly higher impact strength (QD*) than the rubble-pile parent bodies investigated previously (Benavidez et al., 2012) and show a behavior more similar to non-porous monolithic targets (Durda et al., 2007). Our results also confirm that for a given specific impact energy, the SFDs resulting from a parent body disruption are strongly dependent on the size scale.
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Authors
Martin Jutzi, Patrick Michel, Derek C. Richardson,