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Laboratory impact experiments were conducted for gypsum-glass bead targets simulating the parent bodies of ordinary chondrites. The effects of the chondrules included in the parent bodies on impact disruption were experimentally investigated in order to determine the impact conditions for the formation of rubble-pile bodies after catastrophic disruption. The targets included glass beads with a diameter ranging from 100 μm to 3 mm and the volume fraction was 0.6, similar to that of ordinary chondrites, which is about 0.65-0.75. Nylon projectiles with diameters of 10 mm and 2 mm were impacted at 60-180 m s−1 by a single-stage gas gun and at 4 km s−1 by a two-stage light gas gun, respectively. The impact strength of the gypsum-glass bead target was found to range from 56 to 116 J kg−1 depending on the glass bead size, and was several times smaller than that of the porous gypsum target, 446 J kg−1 in low-velocity collisions. The impact strengths of the 100 μm bead target and the porous gypsum target strongly depended on the impact velocity: those obtained in high-velocity collisions were several times greater than those obtained in low-velocity collisions. The velocities of fragments ejected from two corners on the impact surface of the target, measured in the center of the mass system, were slightly dependent on the target materials, irrespective of impact velocity. These results suggest that chondrule-including planetesimals (CiPs) can reconstruct rubble-pile bodies in catastrophic disruptions at the size of the planetesimal smaller than that of planetesimals without chondrules.  相似文献   

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Collisions between planetesimals were common during the first approximately 100 Myr of solar system formation. Such collisions have been suggested to be responsible for thermal processing seen in some meteorites, although previous work has demonstrated that such events could not be responsible for the global thermal evolution of a meteorite parent body. At this early epoch in solar system history, however, meteorite parent bodies would have been heated or retained heat from the decay of short‐lived radionuclides, most notably 26Al. The postimpact structure of an impacted body is shown here to be a strong function of the internal temperature structure of the target body. We calculate the temperature–time history of all mass in these impacted bodies, accounting for their heating in an onion‐shell–structured body prior to the collision event and then allowing for the postimpact thermal evolution as heat from both radioactivities and the impact is diffused through the resulting planetesimal and radiated to space. The thermal histories of materials in these bodies are compared with what they would be in an unimpacted, onion‐shell body. We find that while collisions in the early solar system led to the heating of a target body around the point of impact, a greater amount of mass had its cooling rates accelerated as a result of the flow of heated materials to the surface during the cratering event.  相似文献   

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Shock-induced melting and vaporization of H2O ice during planetary impact events are widespread phenomena. Here, we investigate the mass of shock-produced liquid water remaining within impact craters for the wide range of impact conditions and target properties encountered in the Solar System. Using the CTH shock physics code and the new 5-phase model equation of state for H2O, we calculate the shock pressure field generated by an impact and fit scaling laws for melting and vaporization as a function of projectile mass, impact velocity, impact angle, initial temperature, and porosity. Melt production nearly scales with impact energy, and natural variations in impact parameters result in only a factor of two change in the predicted mass of melt. A fit to the π-scaling law for the transient cavity and transient-to-final crater diameter scaling are determined from recent simulations of the entire cratering process in ice. Combining melt production with π-scaling and the modified Maxwell Z-model for excavation, less than half of the melt is ejected during formation of the transient crater. For impact energies less than about 2 × 1020 J and impact velocities less than about 5 km s−1, the remaining melt lines the final crater floor. However, for larger impact energies and higher impact velocities, the phenomenon of discontinuous excavation in H2O ice concentrates the impact melt into a small plug in the center of the crater floor.  相似文献   

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We present results of a series of large-scale experiments to measure the coefficient of restitution for 1-m-diameter rocky bodies in impacts with collision speeds up to ∼1.5 m s−1. The experiments were conducted in an outdoor setting, with two 40-ton cranes used to suspend the ∼1300-kg granite spheres pendulum-style in mutual contact at the bottoms of their respective paths of motion. The spheres were displaced up to ∼1 m from their rest positions and allowed to impact each other in normal-incidence collisions at relative speeds up to ∼1.5 m s−1. Video data from 66 normal-incidence impacts suggest a value for the coefficient of restitution of 0.83 ± 0.06 for collisions between ∼1-m-scale spheres at speeds of order 1 m s−1. No clear trend of coefficient of restitution with impact speed is discernable in the data.  相似文献   

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Collisions between planetesimals in the early solar system were a common and fundamental process. Most collisions occurred at an oblique incidence angle, yet the influence of impact angle on heating in collisions is not fully understood. We have conducted a series of shock physics simulations to quantify oblique heating processes, and find that both impact angle and target curvature are important in quantifying the amount of heating in a collision. We find an expression to estimate the heating in an oblique collision compared to that in a vertical incidence collision. We have used this expression to quantify heating in the Rhealsilvia‐forming impact on Vesta, and find that there is slightly more heating in a 45° impact than in a vertical impact. Finally, we apply these results to Monte Carlo simulations of collisional processes in the early solar system, and determine the overall effect of impact obliquity from the range of impacts that occurred on a meteorite parent body. For those bodies that survived 100 Myr without disruption, it is not necessary to account for the natural variation in impact angle, as the amount of heating was well approximated by a fixed impact angle of 45°. However, for disruptive impacts, this natural variation in impact angle should be accounted for, as around a quarter of bodies were globally heated by at least 100 K in a variable‐angle model, an order of magnitude higher than under an assumption of a fixed angle of 45°.  相似文献   

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There are obtained upper limits for the relative velocity at infinity of accreting planetesimals for a nearly constant mass of the largest accreting planetesimal and also in the case of variable mass. We conclude, that while the larger planets cannot be brought to the stage of rotational instability by stochastic collisions, the asteroids could be brought. provided that the relative velocities in the asteroid belt were larger than about 2 km s–1.  相似文献   

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Vladimir Svetsov 《Icarus》2011,214(1):316-326
I have performed 3D numerical hydrodynamic simulations of impacts of stony projectiles on stony planar targets in a range of impact velocities from 1.25 to 60 km/s. The projectile and target masses ejected at speeds greater than some given values have been calculated. This provided a possibility to determine impact erosion of a target which undergoes bombardment with comparatively small bodies. The relative losses of target masses and masses of retained projectile material have been averaged over impact angles and approximated by analytical formulas as functions of impact and escape velocities. The balance between escaped material of a target and retained material of a projectile determines growth or reduction of a target mass. The target cratering erosion predominates over the projectile retention when the impacts have velocities of more than 3-5 times the escape velocity of a target. The results can be applied to collisions of planetary embryos with planetesimals, which have higher velocities than embryo-embryo impacts. Estimates for impact velocities 1-10 km/s show that while large embryos accrete planetesimals smaller embryos erode and can completely vanish or partly lose their silicate shells if they are differentiated. Application of calculated erosion efficiency to Mercury made it possible to test a hypothesis (Vityazev, A.V., Pechernikova, G.V., Safronov, V.S. [1988]. Formation of Mercury and removal of its silicate shell. In: Vilas, F., Chapman, C.R., Matthews, M.S. (Eds.), Mercury. Univ. Arizona Press., Tucson, pp. 667−669) that differentiated massive proto-Mercury has lost its mantle due to collisions with objects of moderate sizes. It turned out that in order for this to happen, relative collision velocities must exceed 25 km/s. As alternatives to the widely-known hypothesis of a giant impact on a massive proto-Mercury, other possibilities are considered, which do not require such high speeds. The first one is formation of a number of small-sized metal-rich embryos which lose their silicate shells due to cratering erosion. The second is that a small proto-Mercury was metallic and gained its mantle at the latest stage of its accumulation when it grew so large that the erosion became ineffective.  相似文献   

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Rei Niimi  Toshihiko Kadono 《Icarus》2011,211(2):986-992
A large number of cometary dust particles were captured with low-density silica aerogels by NASA’s Stardust Mission. Knowledge of the details of the capture mechanism of hypervelocity particles in silica aerogel is needed in order to correctly derive the original particle features from impact tracks. However, the mechanism has not been fully understood yet. We shot hard spherical projectiles of several different materials into silica aerogel of density 60 mg cm−3 and observed their penetration processes using an image converter or a high-speed video camera. In order to observe the deceleration of projectiles clearly, we carried out impact experiments at two velocity ranges; ∼4 km s−1 and ∼200 m s−1. From the movies we took, it was indicated that the projectiles were decelerated by hydrodynamic force which was proportional to v2 (v: projectile velocity) during the faster penetration process (∼4 km s−1) and they were merely overcoming the aerogel crushing strength during the slower penetration process (∼200 m s−1). We applied these deceleration mechanisms for whole capture process to calculate the track length. Our model well explains the track length in the experimental data set by Burchell et al. (Burchell, M.J., Creighton, J.A., Cole, M.J., Mann, J., Kearsley, A.T. [2001]. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36, 209-221).  相似文献   

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M. Krause  J. Blum  M. Trieloff 《Icarus》2011,214(1):286-296
We present a non-invasive technique for measuring the thermal conductivity of fragile and sensitive materials. In the context of planet-formation research, the investigation of the thermal conductivity of porous dust aggregates provide important knowledge about the influence of heating processes, like internal heating by radioactive decay of short-lived nuclei, e.g. 26Al, on the evolution and growth of planetesimals. The determination of the thermal conductivity was performed by a combination of laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. An IR camera measured the temperature distribution of the sample surface heated by a well-characterized laser beam. The thermal conductivity as free parameter in the model calculations, exactly emulating the experiment, was varied until the experimental and numerical temperature distributions showed best agreement. Thus, we determined for three types of porous dust samples, consisting of spherical, 1.5 μm-sized SiO2 particles, with volume filling factors in the range of 15-54%, the thermal conductivity to be 0.002-0.02 W m−1 K−1, respectively. From our results, we can conclude that the thermal conductivity mainly depends on the volume filling factor. Further investigations, which are planned for different materials and varied contact area sizes (produced by sintering), will prove the appropriate dependencies in more detail.  相似文献   

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We present N-body simulations of planetary accretion beginning with 1 km radius planetesimals in orbit about a 1 M⊙ star at 0.4 AU. The initial disk of planetesimals contains too many bodies for any current N-body code to integrate; therefore, we model a sample patch of the disk. Although this greatly reduces the number of bodies, we still track in excess of 105 particles. We consider three initial velocity distributions and monitor the growth of the planetesimals. The masses of some particles increase by more than a factor of 100. Additionally, the escape speed of the largest particle grows considerably faster than the velocity dispersion of the particles, suggesting impending runaway growth, although no particle grows large enough to detach itself from the power law size-frequency distribution. These results are in general agreement with previous statistical and analytical results. We compute rotation rates by assuming conservation of angular momentum around the center of mass at impact and that merged planetesimals relax to spherical shapes. At the end of our simulations, the majority of bodies that have undergone at least one merger are rotating faster than the breakup frequency. This implies that the assumption of completely inelastic collisions (perfect accretion), which is made in most simulations of planetary growth at sizes 1 km and above, is inappropriate. Our simulations reveal that, subsequent to the number of particles in the patch having been decreased by mergers to half its initial value, the presence of larger bodies in neighboring regions of the disk may limit the validity of simulations employing the patch approximation.  相似文献   

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As planetary embryos grow, gravitational stirring of planetesimals by embryos strongly enhances random velocities of planetesimals and makes collisions between planetesimals destructive. The resulting fragments are ground down by successive collisions. Eventually the smallest fragments are removed by the inward drift due to gas drag. Therefore, the collisional disruption depletes the planetesimal disk and inhibits embryo growth. We provide analytical formulae for the final masses of planetary embryos, taking into account planetesimal depletion due to collisional disruption. Furthermore, we perform the statistical simulations for embryo growth (which excellently reproduce results of direct N-body simulations if disruption is neglected). These analytical formulae are consistent with the outcome of our statistical simulations. Our results indicate that the final embryo mass at several AU in the minimum-mass solar nebula can reach about ∼0.1 Earth mass within 107 years. This brings another difficulty in formation of gas giant planets, which requires cores with ∼10 Earth masses for gas accretion. However, if the nebular disk is 10 times more massive than the minimum-mass solar nebula and the initial planetesimal size is larger than 100 km, as suggested by some models of planetesimal formation, the final embryo mass reaches about 10 Earth masses at 3-4 AU. The enhancement of embryos’ collisional cross sections by their atmosphere could further increase their final mass to form gas giant planets at 5-10 AU in the Solar System.  相似文献   

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In the present article, the results of theoretical investigation of the dynamics of generation and propagation of planetary (with wavelength 103 km and more) ultra-low frequency (ULF) electromagnetic wave structures in the dissipative ionosphere are given. The physical mechanism of generation of the planetary electromagnetic waves is proposed. It is established, that the global factor, acting permanently in the ionosphere—inhomogeneity (latitude variation) of the geomagnetic field and angular velocity of the earth's rotation—generates the fast and slow planetary ULF electromagnetic waves. The waves propagate along the parallels to the east as well as to the west. In E-region the fast waves have phase velocities (2-20) km s−1and frequencies (10−1-10−4) s−1; the slow waves propagate with local winds velocities and have frequencies (10−4-10−6) s−1. In F-region the fast ULF electromagnetic waves propagate with phase velocities tens-hundreds km s−1 and their frequencies are in the range of (10-10−3) s−1. The slow mode is produced by the dynamoelectric field, it represents a generalization of the ordinary Rossby-type waves in the rotating ionosphere and is caused by the Hall effect in the E-layer. The fast disturbances are the new modes, which are associated with oscillations of the ionospheric electrons frozen in the geomagnetic field and are connected with the large-scale internal vortical electric field generation in the ionosphere. The large-scale waves are weakly damped. The features and the parameters of the theoretically investigated electromagnetic wave structures agree with those of large-scale ULF midlatitude long-period oscillations (MLO) and magnetoionospheric wave perturbations (MIWP), observed experimentally in the ionosphere. It is established, that because of relevance of Coriolis and electromagnetic forces, generation of slow planetary electromagnetic waves at the fixed latitude in the ionosphere can give rise to the reverse of local wind structures and to the direction change of general ionospheric circulation. It is considered one more class of the waves, called as the slow magnetohydrodinamic (MHD) waves, on which inhomogeneity of the Coriolis and Ampere forces do not influence. These waves appear as an admixture of the slow Alfven- and whistler-type perturbations. The waves generate the geomagnetic field from several tens to several hundreds nT and more. Nonlinear interaction of the considered waves with the local ionospheric zonal shear winds is studied. It is established, that planetary ULF electromagnetic waves, at their interaction with the local shear winds, can self-localize in the form of nonlinear solitary vortices, moving along the latitude circles westward as well as eastward with velocity, different from phase velocity of corresponding linear waves. The vortices are weakly damped and long lived. They cause the geomagnetic pulsations stronger than the linear waves by one order. The vortex structures transfer the trapped particles of medium and also energy and heat. That is why such nonlinear vortex structures can be the structural elements of strong macroturbulence of the ionosphere.  相似文献   

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We show that the peak velocity of Jupiter’s visible-cloud-level zonal winds near 24°N (planetographic) increased from 2000 to 2008. This increase was the only change in the zonal velocity from 2000 to 2008 for latitudes between ±70° that was statistically significant and not obviously associated with visible weather. We present the first automated retrieval of fast (∼130 m s−1) zonal velocities at 8°N planetographic latitude, and show that some previous retrievals incorrectly found slower zonal winds because the eastward drift of the dark projections (associated with 5-μm hot spots) “fooled” the retrieval algorithms.We determined the zonal velocity in 2000 from Cassini images from NASA’s Planetary Data System using a global method similar to previous longitude-shifting correlation methods used by others, and a new local method based on the longitudinal average of the two-dimensional velocity field. We obtained global velocities from images acquired in May 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Longer-term variability of the zonal winds is based on comparisons with published velocities based on 1979 Voyager 2 and 1995-1998 HST images. Fluctuations in the zonal wind speeds on the order of 10 m s−1 on timescales ranging from weeks to months were found in the 1979 Voyager 2 and the 1995-1998 HST velocities. In data separated by 10 h, we find that the east-west velocity uncertainty due to longitudinal fluctuations are nearly 10 m s−1, so velocity fluctuations of 10 m s−1 may occur on timescales that are even smaller than 10 h. Fluctuations across such a wide range of timescales limit the accuracy of zonal wind measurements. The concept of an average zonal velocity may be ill-posed, and defining a “temporal mean” zonal velocity as the average of several zonal velocity fields spanning months or years may not be physically meaningful.At 8°N, we use our global method to find peak zonal velocities of ∼110 m s−1 in 2000 and ∼130 m s−1 in 2008. Zonal velocities from 2000 Cassini data produced by our local and global methods agree everywhere, except in the vicinity of 8°N. There, the local algorithm shows that the east-west velocity has large variations in longitude; vast regions exceed ∼140 m s−1. Our global algorithm, and all of the velocity-extraction algorithms used in previously-published studies, found the east-west drift velocities of the visible dark projections, rather than the true zonal velocity at the visible-cloud level. Therefore, the apparent increase in zonal winds between 2000 and 2008 at 8°N is not a true change in zonal velocity.At 7.3°N, the Galileo probe found zonal velocities of 170 m s−1 at the 3-bar level. If the true zonal velocity at the visible-cloud level at this latitude is ∼140 m s−1 rather than ∼105 m s−1, then the vertical zonal wind shear is much less than the currently accepted value.  相似文献   

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P. Oberc 《Icarus》2004,171(2):463-486
Small-scale dust structures, SDSs, altogether ∼35 events with extent ∼30-220 km, have been recognized owing to electric field records, mostly near the closest approach of Vega-2 to Halley's nucleus. Several (8-9) morphological forms of SDS have been identified, and all they make one family. Among the family members, the key form (with respect to which, all other forms can be regarded as degenerate) is a sequence of 3-5 dust clouds. The morphological forms represent various Vega-2 passes through SDSs at different stages of development. SDSs observable as the key form consisted of several fairly regularly spaced dust subpopulations, whose plane of symmetry was parallel to the comet orbit plane. That regularity together with specific features of morphological forms strongly constrain disintegration scenarios and dynamics of fragments, and allow to draw a number of conclusions, the main of which are: SDS parent bodies were ice-free dust aggregates lifted from the nucleus near the comet perihelion, whose masses were in the range ∼0.1-1 of the biggest emitted mass (mass of a body accelerated to the escape velocity, i.e., ∼300-1500 kg); the disintegration scenario comprised a few steps, and the first-step disintegration consisted mainly in consecutive detachments of biggest first-step fragments (BF-SFs) from the parent body; a SDS observable as the key form included the dust minitail of parent body and a few BF-SF minitails, the former one being longer than the latter ones; SDS parent bodies had a fractal-like internal structure, and the BF-SF mass was a few percent of the parent body mass; the thermal conductivity of SDS parent body was less than ∼0.4 W m−1 K−1 or so, while the latent heat of gluing organics was roughly 80 kJ mol−1; the disintegration mechanism was a combination of sintering and sublimation of organics. The multistep disintegration of SDS parent bodies can be reconciled with the basically one-step disintegration of aggregates responsible for the dust boundary (Oberc, P., Icarus 1996, 124, 195-208). The fractal-like structure and the relation between BF-SF mass and parent body mass are in agreement with predictions from the Weidenschilling model of comet formation. Large ice-free dust bodies, in particular SDS parent bodies, can be identified with refractory boulders postulated by some comet nucleus models.  相似文献   

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Experiments to investigate the effect of impacts on side-walls of dust detectors such as the present NASA/ESA Galileo/Ulysses instrument are reported. Side walls constitute 27% of the internal area of these instruments, and increase field of view from 140° to 180°. Impact of cosmic dust particles onto Galileo/Ulysses Al side walls was simulated by firing Fe particles, 0.5-5 μm diameter, 2-50 km s−1, onto an Al plate, simulating the targets of Galileo and Ulysses dust instruments. Since side wall impacts affect the rise time of the target ionization signal, the degree to which particle fluxes are overestimated varies with velocity. Side-wall impacts at particle velocities of 2-20 km s−1 yield rise times 10-30% longer than for direct impacts, so that derived impact velocity is reduced by a factor of ∼2. Impacts on side wall at 20-50 km s−1 reduced rise times by a factor of ∼10 relative to direct impact data. This would result in serious overestimates of flux of particles intersecting the dust instrument at velocities of 20-50 km s−1. Taking into account differences in laboratory calibration geometry we obtain the following percentages for previous overestimates of incident particle number density values from the Galileo instrument [Grün et al., 1992. The Galileo dust detector. Space Sci. Rev. 60, 317-340]: 55% for 2 km s−1 impacts, 27% at 10 km s−1 and 400% at 70 km s−1. We predict that individual particle masses are overestimated by ∼10-90% when side-wall impacts occur at 2-20 km s−1, and underestimated by ∼10-102 at 20-50 km s−1. We predict that wall impacts at 20-50 km s−1 can be identified in Galileo instrument data on account of their unusually short target rise times. The side-wall calibration is used to obtain new revised values [Krüger et al., 2000. A dust cloud of Ganymede maintained by hypervelocity impacts of interplanetary micrometeoroids. Planet. Space Sci. 48, 1457-1471; 2003. Impact-generated dust clouds surrounding the Galilean moons. Icarus 164, 170-187] of the Galilean satellite dust number densities of 9.4×10−5, 9.9×10−5, 4.1×10−5, and 6.8×10−5 m−3 at 1 satellite radius from Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, respectively. Additionally, interplanetary particle number densities detected by the Galileo mission are found to be 1.6×10−4, 7.9×10−4, 3.2×10−5, 3.2×10−5, and 7.9×10−4 m−3 at heliocentric distances of 0.7, 1, 2, 3, and 5 AU, respectively. Work by Burchell et al. [1999b. Acceleration of conducting polymer-coated latex particles as projectiles in hypervelocity impact experiments. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32, 1719-1728] suggests that low-density “fluffy” particles encountered by Ulysses will not significantly affect our results—further calibration would be useful to confirm this.  相似文献   

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The SMART-1 lunar impact   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
The SMART-1 spacecraft impacted the Moon on 3rd September 2006 at a speed of 2 km s−1 and at a very shallow angle of incidence (∼1°). The resulting impact crater is too small to be viewed from the Earth; accordingly, the general crater size and shape have been determined here by laboratory impact experiments at the same speed and angle of incidence combined with extrapolating to the correct size scale to match the SMART-1 impact. This predicts a highly asymmetric crater approximately 5.5-26 m long, 1.9-9 m wide, 0.23-1.5 m deep and 0.71-6.9 m3 volume. Some of the excavated mass will have gone into crater rim walls, but 0.64-6.3 m3 would have been ejecta on ballistic trajectories corresponding to a cloud of 2200-21,800 kg of lunar material moving away from the impact site. The shallow Messier crater on the Moon is similarly asymmetric and is usually taken as arising from a highly oblique impact. The light flash from the impact and the associated ejecta plume were observed from Earth, but the flash magnitude was not obtained, so it is not possible to obtain the luminous efficiency of the impact event.  相似文献   

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We study the kinematics of the Galactic thin and thick disk populations using stars from the RAVE survey’s second data release together with distance estimates from Breddels et al. (2010). The velocity distribution exhibits the expected moving groups present in the solar neighborhood. We separate thick and thin disk stars by applying the X (stellar-population) criterion of Schuster et al. (1993), which takes into account both kinematic and metallicity information. For 1906 thin disk and 110 thick disk stars classified in this way, we find a vertical velocity dispersion, mean rotational velocity and mean orbital eccentricity of (σW, 〈VΦ〉, 〈e〉)thin = (18 ± 0.3 km s−1, 223 ± 0.4 km s−1, 0.07 ± 0.07) and (σW, 〈VΦ〉, 〈e〉)thick = (35 ± 2 km s−1, 163 ± 3 km s−1, 0.31 ± 0.16), respectively. From the radial Jeans equation, we derive a thick disk scale length in the range 1.5-2.2 kpc, whose greatest uncertainty lies in the adopted form of the underlying potential. The shape of the orbital eccentricity distribution indicates that the thick disk stars in our sample most likely formed in situ with minor gas-rich mergers and/or radial migration being the most likely cause for their orbits. We further obtain mean metal abundances of 〈[M/H]〉thin = +0.03 ± 0.17, and 〈[M/H]〉thick = −0.51 ± 0.23, in good agreement with previous estimates. We estimate a radial metallicity gradient in the thin disk of −0.07 dex kpc−1, which is larger than predicted by chemical evolution models where the disk grows inside-out from infalling gas. It is, however, consistent with models where significant migration of stars shapes the chemical signature of the disk, implying that radial migration might play at least part of a role in the thick disk’s formation.  相似文献   

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To investigate the evolution of any processes on planetary surfaces in the outer Solar System, the rheological properties of non-water ices were studied by means of a sound velocity measurement system and a uniaxial deformation apparatus. A pulse transmission method was used to obtain longitudinal (Vp) and transverse (Vs) wave velocities through solid nitrogen and methane at temperatures ranging from 5 to 64 K and from 5 to 90 K, respectively. The measured velocities confirmed that the solid methane and solid nitrogen samples were non-porous polycrystalline samples without any cracks and bubbles inside. Compression tests at constant strain-rate were performed for solid nitrogen and methane at temperatures of 5-56 K and 5-77 K, respectively, at strain-rates of 10−4-10−2 s−1. Both brittle and ductile behavior was observed for solid nitrogen and methane under these conditions. The maximum strength of solid nitrogen was observed to be 9 MPa in the brittle failure mode, and that of solid methane was 10 MPa. These low strengths cannot support cantaloupe structures with the topographic undulation larger than several kilometers found on Triton’s surface, suggesting that other materials such as H2O ice could underlay solid methane and nitrogen and support these structures.  相似文献   

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Abstract– We investigate the hypothesis that many chondrules are frozen droplets of spray from impact plumes launched when thin‐shelled, largely molten planetesimals collided at low speed during accretion. This scenario, here dubbed “splashing,” stems from evidence that such planetesimals, intensely heated by 26Al, were abundant in the protoplanetary disk when chondrules were being formed approximately 2 Myr after calcium‐aluminum‐rich inclusions (CAIs), and that chondrites, far from sampling the earliest planetesimals, are made from material that accreted later, when 26Al could no longer induce melting. We show how “splashing” is reconcilable with many features of chondrules, including their ages, chemistry, peak temperatures, abundances, sizes, cooling rates, indented shapes, “relict” grains, igneous rims, and metal blebs, and is also reconcilable with features that challenge the conventional view that chondrules are flash‐melted dust‐clumps, particularly the high concentrations of Na and FeO in chondrules, but also including chondrule diversity, large phenocrysts, macrochondrules, scarcity of dust‐clumps, and heating. We speculate that type I (FeO‐poor) chondrules come from planetesimals that accreted early in the reduced, partially condensed, hot inner nebula, and that type II (FeO‐rich) chondrules come from planetesimals that accreted in a later, or more distal, cool nebular setting where incorporation of water‐ice with high Δ17O aided oxidation during heating. We propose that multiple collisions and repeated re‐accretion of chondrules and other debris within restricted annular zones gave each chondrite group its distinctive properties, and led to so‐called “complementarity” and metal depletion in chondrites. We suggest that differentiated meteorites are numerically rare compared with chondrites because their initially plentiful molten parent bodies were mostly destroyed during chondrule formation.  相似文献   

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We present results of 161 numerical simulations of impacts into 100-km diameter asteroids, examining debris trajectories to search for the formation of bound satellite systems. Our simulations utilize a 3-dimensional smooth-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code to model the impact between the colliding asteroids. The outcomes of the SPH models are handed off as the initial conditions for N-body simulations, which follow the trajectories of the ejecta fragments to search for the formation of satellite systems. Our results show that catastrophic and large-scale cratering collisions create numerous fragments whose trajectories can be changed by particle-particle interactions and by the reaccretion of material onto the remaining target body. Some impact debris can enter into orbit around the remaining target body, which is a gravitationally reaccreted rubble pile, to form a SMAshed Target Satellite (SMATS). Numerous smaller fragments escaping the largest remnant may have similar trajectories such that many become bound to one another, forming Escaping Ejecta Binaries (EEBs). Our simulations so far seem to be able to produce satellite systems qualitatively similar to observed systems in the main asteroid belt. We find that impacts of 34-km diameter projectiles striking at 3 km s−1 at impact angles of ∼30° appear to be particularly efficient at producing relatively large satellites around the largest remnant as well as large numbers of modest-size binaries among their escaping ejecta.  相似文献   

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