Asteroid collisional evolution studies

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Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept...77d&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program, 1984 p 77-79 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

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Collisions, Evolution (Development), Size Distribution, Solar System, Vesta Asteroid, Gravitational Effects, Impact Strength, Mathematical Models, Prediction Analysis Techniques

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Understanding asteroid collisional evolution is important for characterizing the physical state of asteroids today and for learning about the processes that acted in this region of the solar system early in its history. The collisional outcome algorithm in the numerical simulation of asteroid evolution was revised to reflect pressure-strengthening. Asteroid collisions are now treated as a distribution of oblique impacts rather than as only head-on collisions. The initial and evolved size distribution of a plausible asteroid population is compared with the observed size distribution. Asteroid accretion times and reconstruction of the primordial solar nebula suggest that there was significantly more mass in this part of the solar system when the asteroids were accreting.

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