Impact-generated atmospheres over Titan, Ganymede, and Callisto

Details Impact-generated atmospheres over Titan, Ganymede, and Callisto Impact-generated atmospheres over Titan, Ganymede, and Callisto

Jan 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...95....1z&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 95, Jan. 1992, p. 1-23.

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Models, Callisto, Ganymede, Meteorite Collisions, Satellite Atmospheres, Titan, Hypervelocity Impact, Meteoritic Damage, Meteoroid Concentration, Planetary Atmospheres, Solar System

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The current distribution of atmospheres among Ganymede, Titan, and Callisto are presently accounted for by a process of competition between impact erosion and impact-furnished supply of atmosphile-laden late veneers. Titan's lower impact velocities have allowed it to accommodate an atmosphere, while Callisto and Ganymede remain barren. The model applied entails that the threshold impact velocity for atmospheric cratering by icy impactors be in the 10-14 km/sec range, consistent with the implications of the Schmidt and Housen (1987) crater-energy scaling for nonporous targets.

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