Hypervelocity impacts and magnetization of small bodies in the Solar System

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May 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995icar..115...86c&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 115, no. 1, p. 86-96

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Hypervelocity Impact, Magnetic Fields, Magnetization, Mathematical Models, Protoplanets, Asteroids, Ferromagnetism, Fragmentation, Gaspra Asteroid, Paramagnetism, Scaling Laws

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The observed magnetism of asteroids such as Gaspra and Ida (and other small bodies in the solar system including the Moon and meteorites) may have resulted from an impact-induced shock wave producing a thermodynamic state in which iron-nickel alloy, dispersed in a silicate matrix, is driven from the usual low-temperature, low-pressure, alpha, kaemacite, phase to the paramagnetic, epsilon (hcp), phase. The magnetization was acquired upon rarefaction and reentry into the ferromagnetic, alpha, structure. The degree of remagnetization depends on the strength of the ambient field, which may have been associated with a Solar-System-wide magnetic field. A transient field induced by the impact event itself may have resulted in a significant, or possibly, even a dominant contribution, as well. The scaling law of Housen et al. (Housen, K. R., R. M. Schmidt, and K. A. Holsapple 1991) for catastrophic asteroid impact disaggregation imposes a constraint on the degree to which small planetary bodies may be magnetized and yet survive fragmentation by the same event. Our modeling results show it is possible that Ida was magnetized when a large impact fractured a 125 +/- 22-km-radius protoasteroid to form the Koronis family. Similarly, we calculate that Gaspra could be a magnetized fragment of a 45 +/- 15 km-radius protoasteroid.

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