Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Kent, UK
- Provides a tool to link surface features to the internal structure of asteroids
- Applies the tool to asteroid (2867) Šteins, which constrains the configuration of voids inside this asteroid
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
Most small asteroids are 'rubble piles' – re-accumulated fragments of debris from earlier disruptive collisions. The study of fragmentation processes for rubble pile asteroids plays an essential part in understanding their collisional evolution. An important unanswered question is “what is the distribution of void space inside rubble pile asteroids?” As a result from this thesis, numerical impact experiments can now be used to link surface features to the internal structure and therefore help toanswer this question.
Applying this model to asteroid Šteins, which was imaged from close range by the Rosetta spacecraft, a large hill-like structure is shown to be most likely primordial, while a catena of pits can be interpreted as evidence for the existence of fracturing of pre-existing internal voids.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He was awarded his M. Sc. in November 2011 with a thesis on the ‘Stability of some recently found circumbinary systems’ supervised by Prof. Dr. S. Dreizler at the Institute for Astrophysics Göttingen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids
Authors: Jakob Deller
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47985-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47984-2Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83873-1Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47985-9Published: 01 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 164
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Planetology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles