Energy loss and impact cratering in aerogels: theory and experiment

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004icar..172..613d&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 172, Issue 2, p. 613-624.

Physics

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Aerogel collectors have been deployed in low-Earth orbit to collect orbital debris and micrometeorites. An array of silica aerogel collectors is currently en-route back to Earth following an encounter with the Comet Wild-2 on board the Stardust spacecraft. Stardust is returning, for laboratory analysis, cometary and interstellar dust grains which impacted into the aerogel collectors at hypervelocities. While the morphology of impact craters in aerogels has been studied empirically, a theoretical understanding of the physical mechanisms responsible for the formation of impact craters in these solids is lacking. Here we propose and test a model of compaction driven impact cratering in aerogels. Our model derives impact crater dimensions directly from energy and momentum deposition.

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