A general formulation for the distribution of impacts and ejecta from small planetary satellites

Details A general formulation for the distribution of impacts and ejecta from small planetary satellites A general formulation for the distribution of impacts and ejecta from small planetary satellites

Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993icar..106..536c&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 106, p. 536

Physics

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Natural Satellites, Ejecta, Interplanetary Dust, Planetary Rings, Impact, Micrometeorites, Radiative Transfer, Oort Cloud

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An expression is derived for the angular distribution of meteoroid ejecta from either impacts onto a single moon or ring-particle orbiting of a planet with arbitrary obliquity. Because ejecta distributions are prograde, due to the enhanced impact velocity on the leading face of the target, ejecta orbits are concentrated in the region exterior to the source satellite. The impact velocity of micrometeoroids in the frame of the satellite correlates with the micrometeoroid population's orbital-element distribution.

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