Testing Collisional Scaling Laws: Comparing with Observables

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Sep 1999

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #31, #24.06

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How large bodies break up in response to energetic collisions is a problem that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Ever more sophisticated computation methods have also been developed; prominent among these are hydrocode simulations of collisional disruption by Benz and Asphaug (1999, Icarus, in press), Love and Ahrens (1996, LPSC XXVII, 777-778), and Melosh and Ryan (1997, Icarus 129, 562-564). Durda et al. (1998, Icarus 135, 431-440) used the observed asteroid size distribution to infer a scaling algorithm. The present situation is that there are several proposed scaling laws that differ by as much as two orders of magnitude at particular sizes. We have expanded upon the work of Davis et al. (1994, Goutelas Proceedings) and tested the suite of proposed scaling algorithms against observations of the main-belt asteroids. The effects of collisions among the asteroids produce the following observables: (a) the size distribution has been significantly shaped by collisions, (b) collisions have produced about 25 well recognized asteroid families, and (c) the basaltic crust of Vesta has been largely preserved in the face of about 4.5 Byr of impacts. We will present results from a numerical simulation of asteroid collisional evolution over the age of the solar system using proposed scaling laws and a range of hypothetical initial populations.

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