Cratering experiments into curved surfaces and their implication for craters on small satellites

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Oct 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993icar..105..345f&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 105, p. 345

Computer Science

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Satellite Surfaces, Craters, Curvature, Phobos, Hyperion, Impact Tests, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Regolith

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The effect of curvature on the shape of large craters on the surfaces of small satellites is here investigated in view of experimental impact craters on cylindrical, spherical, and plane surface mortar targets. Generally, increasing target surface curvature flattens crater cross-section and increases crater diameter and ejecta mass. Crater shape is noted to change rapidly as crater radius becomes comparable to the target surface curvature radius. A large crater on Phobos is compared with these cross-sectional shapes.

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