Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...56..590f&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 56, Dec. 1983, p. 590-602. Sponsorship: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan.
Physics
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Crustal Fractures, Meteoritic Damage, Phobos, Planetary Geology, Satellite Surfaces, Hypervelocity Impact, Meteorite Craters, Topography
Scientific paper
The fracture pattern produced by high-velocity projectiles on a clay triaxial ellipsoid model of Phobos with that moon's axial ratios is studied. The impacts produced two sets of fracture patterns, one radial and one concentric. The latter tend to occur along E lines, defined as the intersecting lines of the ellipsoid surface and a set of spherical surfaces with the center of the spheres at the impact site. The former tend to occur along P lines, defined as the lines crossing E lines perpendicularly on the ellipsoid surface. Some patterns of the grooves originating radially from the crater Stickney on Phobos are very similar to P lines. The gridded topography, hummocky groove sections, and smooth topography on Phobos are distributed along the E lines surrounding the converging point of the P lines. All of the models except one showed that the fracture density east of the impact site is greater than that to the west.
Asada Noriaki
Fujiwara Akira
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