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Reshaping and ejection processes on rubble-pile asteroids from impacts
DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202244807.png)
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Context. Most small asteroids (< 50 km in diameter) are the result of the breakup of a larger parent body and are often considered to be rubble-pile objects. Similar structures are expected for the secondaries of small asteroid binaries, including Dimorphos, the smaller component of the 65 803 Didymos binary system and the target of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and ESA's Hera mission. The DART impact will occur on September 26, 2022, and will alter the orbital period of Dimorphos around Didymos. Aims. In this work we assume Dimorphos-like bodies with a rubble-pile structure and quantify the effects of boulder packing in its interior on the post-impact morphology, degree of shape change, and material ejection processes. Methods. We used the Bern smoothed particle hydrodynamics shock physics code to numerically model hypervelocity impacts on small, 160 m in diameter, rubble-pile asteroids with a variety of boulder distributions. Results. We find that the post-impact target morphology is most sensitive to the mass fraction of boulders comprising the target, while the asteroid deflection efficiency depends on both the mass fraction of boulders on the target and on the boulder size distribution close to the impact point. Our results may also have important implications for the structure of small asteroids.
Keyword:
minor planets
asteroids
general
minor planets
asteroids
individual
Didymos
minor planets
asteroids
individual
Dimorphos
methods
numerical
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