On the transfer of radiation at asteroidal surfaces in relation to their orbit deflection - II

Details On the transfer of radiation at asteroidal surfaces in relation to their orbit deflection - II On the transfer of radiation at asteroidal surfaces in relation to their orbit deflection - II

Aug 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.299..244y&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 299, Issue 1, pp. 244-248.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Celestial Mechanics, Stellar Dynamics, Minor Planets, Asteroids

Scientific paper

The efficiency of absorption of X-rays generated by a nuclear explosion at the surface of an asteroid, estimated earlier, is used to calculate the explosion yield needed to deflect the orbit of an asteroid. Following the work of Ahrens & Harris, it is shown that a recoil velocity of 1 cm s^-1 is required to deflect an asteroid from a collision course with the Earth, and the necessary yield of explosion energy is estimated. If it is assumed that the scaling law between the energy and the diameter of the resulting crater, obtained from experiments carried out on the Earth, remains valid on the asteroid surface, where gravity is much weaker, an explosion energy of 8 and 800 megaton (Mton) equivalent of TNT would be required for asteroids of diameter 1 and 10 km respectively. If, on the other hand, the crater diameter is proportional to a certain power of the gravity g, the power being determined from a dimension analysis, 130 kton and 12 Mton would be required to endow asteroids of diameters 1 and 10 km with the required velocity, respectively. The result indicates that in order to estimate the required explosion energy, a better understanding of cratering under gravity much weaker than on the Earth would be required.

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