期刊
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
卷 107, 期 -, 页码 29-35出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.06.003
关键词
Asteroids; Planetesimals; Dynamics; N-body simulations; Collisional physics
资金
- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the Office of Space Science [NNX08AM39G, NNX10AQ01G, NNX12AG29G]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [AST1009579]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme [282703-NEOShield]
Our knowledge of the strengths of small bodies in the Solar System is limited by our poor understanding of their internal structures, and this, in turn, clouds our understanding of the formation and evolution of these bodies. Observations of the rotational states of asteroids whose diameters are larger than a few hundreds of meters have revealed that they are dominated by gravity and that most are unlikely to be monoliths; however, there is a wide range of plausible internal structures. Numerical and analytical studies of shape and spin limits of gravitational aggregates and their collisional evolution show a strong dependence on shear strength. In order to study this effect, we carry out a systematic exploration of the dependence of collision outcomes on dissipation and friction parameters of the material components making up the bodies. We simulate the catastrophic disruption (leading to the largest remnant retaining 50% of the original mass) of km-size asteroids modeled as gravitational aggregates using pkdgrav, a cosmology N-body code adapted to collisional problems and recently enhanced with a new soft-sphere collision algorithm that includes more realistic contact forces. We find that for a range of three different materials, higher friction and dissipation values increase the catastrophic disruption threshold by about half a magnitude. Furthermore, we find that pre-impact rotation systematically increases mass loss on average, regardless of the target's internal configuration. Our results have important implications for the efficiency of planet formation via planetesimal growth, and also more generally to estimate the impact energy threshold for catastrophic disruption, as this generally has only been evaluated for non-spinning bodies without detailed consideration of material properties. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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