The Theory of Breakage and Asteroid Size Distribution

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000cem..conf..209s&link_type=abstract

Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, p. 209

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Asteroids, Size Distribution, Breaking, Hypervelocity Impact, Impactors, Populations, Cometary Collisions, Lunar Craters, Asteroid Collisions

Scientific paper

The last decade has seen an increasing interest by both scientists and the public in hazards associated with asteroid/cometary impacts. The degree of hazard depends not only on the frequency of impacts, but also on the size distribution of the impactors. Because of sampling difficulties caused by the relative shortness of sampling time and the vastness of space, it is necessary to make assumptions about the general size relationship among asteroids. This paper presents an argument for a modification in the present operating assumption of a power law for such size distributions. Additional information is contained in the original extended abstract.

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