Jovian satellite Callisto - Possibility and consequences of its explosion

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Jan 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989em%26p...44....7d&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295), vol. 44, Jan. 1989, p. 7-23.

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Callisto, Explosions, Planetary Craters, Satellite Surfaces, Comets, Ganymede, Impact Damage, Natural Satellites, Topography

Scientific paper

The consequences of an explosion of the envelope of the Jovian satellite Callisto due to the saturation of its ices by electrolysis products are considered. Such an explosion, producing some 10 to the 9th ice fragments with phi of not less than 0.3 km, would provide daily explosions equivalent to greater than 1 Mton of TNT, yearly explosions of greater than 1000 Mton, and centennial explosions of greater than 10 to the 5th Mton as a result of the impact of bodies on the earth. Apart from the heating of the atmosphere and the poisoning of the air by such compounds as HCN and CO, impacts of greater than 10 to the 5th Mton could produce a nuclear winter. Possible sources for impacts that may have been responsible, through such catastrophes, for changes of geological epochs on earth in the past are explored.

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