Raditladi: numerical modeling of a Hermean peak-ring basin

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.833

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Mercury has remained an "enigmatic body" among the terrestrial planets for more than three decades, caused by the paucity of data collected by the NASA Mariner 10 spacecraft in the Seventies. The recent flybys of the Discovery mission MESSENGER with Mercury updated our knowledge about this planet, in particular new areas of Mercury have been imaged, revealing structures never observed before. One new feature, a double-ring impact basin named Raditladi, soon appeared very interesting for the small number of craters detected either on its floor and its ejecta, suggesting a very young age. The peculiarity to have a very young age estimate in the case of such a large impact crater is the starting point for a deepen analysis on this structure. In this work we will show the result of the hydrocode simulations of the basin to be used to investigate the layering, at the basis of the age determination, and the impactor size.

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