Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids

• Main Author: Deller, Jakob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Astrophysics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

The thesis presents a tool to create rubble pile asteroid simulants for use in numerical impact experiments, and provides evidence that the asteroid disruption threshold and the resultant fragment size distribution are sensitive to the distribution of internal voids. This thesis represents an import...