Hypervelocity Impact Experiments on Solid CO_2 Targets

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998icar..131..210b&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp. 210-222.

Computer Science

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The results of impact experiments on solid CO_2 are presented. The resulting crater morphology has been measured (crater depth, diameter and volume). The data are for normal incidence impacts, at typically 5 km s^-1, of solid steel spheres of diameters 0.4 to 2.0 mm onto solid CO_2. The size range of the projectiles permits a determination of the dependence of the crater parameters with impact energy. The craters are shallow, with material removed mainly by spallation (crater depth/diameter ~ 0.2). Compared to similar impacts in water ice, the craters in CO_2 are smaller (by a factor of 2.2 in diameter and 8.9 in volume). The size distribution of the ejecta is measured and is found to vary strongly with the angle of ejection.

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