Impacts of hemispherical granular targets: Implications for global impacts

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May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..380s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 380-381 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geophysics

Ejecta, Granular Materials, Impact, Particle Trajectories, Projectile Cratering, Trajectory Analysis, Displacement, Gravitational Effects, Impact Prediction, Plumes

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As impact excavation diameters subtend a nontrivial fraction of a planetary body, both the excavation process and ejecta emplacement may depart form the classical description of impacts into a planar surface. Hemispherical particulate targets were impacted at the NASA-Ames Vertical Gun Range in order to trace the evolution of the ejecta curtain and to document the effects of slope and surface curvature on crater shape and cratering efficiency. The experiments suggest that basin size impacts or large craters on small bodies may be shallower than their counterparts on a planar surface but may have displaced a larger relative mass. Moreover, the increased ejecta curtain angle with distance may result in a change in ejecta emplacement style with distance. Although the ejecta curtain is vertical, ejecta within the curtain impact the surface at 45 deg and the time between first and last arrival within the curtain increases. This increased interaction time as the ejecta curtain density decreases should result in a more chaotic style of implacement.

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