Fragment properties at the catastrophic disruption threshold: The effect of the parent body’s internal structure   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Martin Jutzi  Patrick Michel  Derek C. Richardson 《Icarus》2010,207(1):54-346

Numerical simulations of asteroid breakups, including both the fragmentation of the parent body and the gravitational interactions between the fragments, have allowed us to reproduce successfully the main properties of asteroid families formed in different regimes of impact energy, starting from a non-porous parent body. In this paper, using the same approach, we concentrate on a single regime of impact energy, the so-called catastrophic threshold usually designated by , which results in the escape of half of the target’s mass. Thanks to our recent implementation of a model of fragmentation of porous materials, we can characterize for both porous and non-porous targets with a wide range of diameters. We can then analyze the potential influence of porosity on the value of , and by computing the gravitational phase of the collision in the gravity regime, we can characterize the collisional outcome in terms of the fragment size and ejection speed distributions, which are the main outcome properties used by collisional models to study the evolutions of the different populations of small bodies. We also check the dependency of on the impact speed of the projectile.In the strength regime, which corresponds to target sizes below a few hundreds of meters, we find that porous targets are more difficult to disrupt than non-porous ones. In the gravity regime, the outcome is controlled purely by gravity and porosity in the case of porous targets. In the case of non-porous targets, the outcome also depends on strength. Indeed, decreasing the strength of non-porous targets make them easier to disrupt in this regime, while increasing the strength of porous targets has much less influence on the value of . Therefore, one cannot say that non-porous targets are systematically easier or more difficult to disrupt than porous ones, as the outcome highly depends on the assumed strength values. In the gravity regime, we also confirm that the process of gravitational reaccumulation is at the origin of the largest remnant’s mass in both cases. We then propose some power-law relationships between and both target’s size and impact speed that can be used in collisional evolution models. The resulting fragment size distributions can also be reasonably fitted by a power-law whose exponent ranges between −2.2 and −2.7 for all target diameters in both cases and independently on the impact velocity (at least in the small range investigated between 3 and 5 km/s). Then, although ejection velocities in the gravity regime tend to be higher from porous targets, they remain on the same order as the ones from non-porous targets.  相似文献   

Penetrometry of granular and moist planetary surface materials: Application to the Huygens landing site on Titan     

Karl R. Atkinson  John C. Zarnecki  Martin C. Towner  Timothy J. Ringrose  Axel Hagermann  Andrew J. Ball  Mark R. Leese  Gunter Kargl  Mark D. Paton  Ralph D. Lorenz  Simon F. Green 《Icarus》2010,210(2):843-851

The Huygens probe landed on the then unknown surface of Titan in January 2005. A small, protruding penetrometer, part of the Surface Science Package (SSP), was pushed into the surface material measuring the mechanical resistance of the ground as the probe impacted the landing site. We present laboratory penetrometry into room temperature surface analogue materials using a replica penetrometer to investigate further the nature of Titan’s surface and examine the sensor’s capabilities. The results are then compared to the flight instrument’s signature and suggest the Titan surface substrate material consists of sand-sized particles with a mean grain size ～2 mm. A possible thin 7 mm coating with mechanical properties similar to terrestrial snow may overlie this substrate, although due to the limited data we are unable to detect any further layering or grading within the near-surface material. The unusual weakening with depth of the signature returned from Titan has, to date, only been reproduced using a damp sand target that becomes progressively wetter with depth, and supports the suggestion that the surface may consist of a damp and cohesive material with interstitial liquid contained between its grains. Comparison with terrestrial analogues highlights the unusual nature of the landing site material.  相似文献   

Quasar feedback: more bang for your buck     

Philip F. Hopkins  Martin Elvis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2010,401(1):7-14

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Karren of Mushroom Mountain (Junzi Shan) in the Eastern Yunnan Ridge, Yunnan, China: Karstological and Tourist Attraction     

Martin KNEZ  Tadej SLABE 《《地质学报》英文版》2010,84(2):424-431

<正>Mushroom Mountain karren with predominantly flat tops that formed along the stylolites and bedding planes dictated the special features of this karst landscape.Their features and rock relief clearly reflect the geological conditions and development.The subsoil karren with conical tops dissected by subsoil rock relief were exposed from beneath the soil.Below tree vegetation,the subsoil karren are to a great extent covered by moss and lichen,under which they acquire their characteristic shape.On the bare surface they were reshaped by rainwater that carves flutes and solution pans.The old cave that opens below the top of one of the cones reveals the period before its dissection into hills and cones when this part of the karst aquifer was still deep under the water table.  相似文献   

Fossil Hydrophilid Beetles(Coleoptera:Hydrophilidae)of the Late Oiigocene Rott Formation(Germany)     

Martin FIKEK  Heiko SCHMIED  Jakub PROKOP 《《地质学报》英文版》2010,84(4)

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Eckfeld Maar: Window into an Eocene Terrestrial Habitat in Central Europe   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Herbert Lutz  Uwe KaulfuSS  Torsten Wappler  Werner L?hnertz  Volker Wilde  Dieter F. Mertz  Jens Mingram  Jens L. Franzen  Herbert Frankenh?user  Martin Koziol 《《地质学报》英文版》2010,84(4):984-1009

<正>To mark the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in 2009 and of the centennial of the Mainz Natural History Museum in 2010,we present a short account of our present knowledge of the Eckfeld Maar after 20 years of continuous research.This paper does not attempt to include all of the detailed results on the geology of the Eckfeld site or its biota.To date,nearly 250 papers and books have been published since the start of our project.An up-to-date list of these publications can be found at www.eckfeldermaar. de.  相似文献   

Analytical computation of arc menisci configuration under primary drainage in convex capillary cross sections     

Martin Held 《Computational Geosciences》2010,14(2):311-317

We analyze the geometric set-up of Lindquist’s “The Geometry of Primary Drainage” (J Colloid Interface Sci 296(2):655–668, 2006) and show that his main equation, which models the arc menisci configuration under primary drainage in capillary tube cross sections, can be solved analytically for the special case of a convex cross section and the wetting angle being assumed 0. Our approach relies on the Voronoi diagram of the cross section and runs in O(n logn) time for an n-segment cross section. It requires only the solution of n − 2 second-degree polynomial equations.  相似文献   

Adenine oxidation by pyrite-generated hydroxyl radicals     

Corey A Cohn  Shawn C Fisher  Bruce J Brownawell  Martin AA Schoonen 《Geochemical transactions》2010,11(1):2

Cellular exposure to particulate matter with concomitant formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidization of biomolecules may lead to negative health outcomes. Evaluating the particle-induced formation of ROS and the oxidation products from reaction of ROS with biomolecules is useful for gaining a mechanistic understanding of particle-induced oxidative stress. Aqueous suspensions of pyrite particles have been shown to form hydroxyl radicals and degrade nucleic acids. Reactions between pyrite-induced hydroxyl radicals and nucleic acid bases, however, remain to be determined. Here, we compared the oxidation of adenine by Fenton-generated (i.e., ferrous iron and hydrogen peroxide) hydroxyl radicals to adenine oxidation by hydroxyl radicals generated in pyrite aqueous suspensions. Results show that adenine oxidizes in the presence of pyrite (without the addition of hydrogen peroxide) and that the rate of oxidation is dependent on the pyrite loading. Adenine oxidation was prevented by addition of either catalase or ethanol to the pyrite/adenine suspensions, which implies that hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals are causing the adenine oxidation. The adenine oxidation products, 8-oxoadenine and 2-hydroxyadenine, were the same whether hydroxyl radicals were generated by Fenton or pyrite-initiated reactions. Although nucleic acid bases are unlikely to be directly exposed to pyrite particles, the formation of ROS in the vicinity of cells may lead to oxidative stress.  相似文献   

From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey)     

Yeşim İslamoğlu  Mathias Harzhauser  Martin Gross  Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno  Stjepan Coric  Andreas Kroh  Fred Rögl  Jan van der Made 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2010,99(1):183-200

The Oligocene depositional history of the Thrace Basin documents a unique paleogeographic position at a junction between the Western Tethys and the Eastern Paratethys. As part of the Tethys, shallow marine carbonate platforms prevailed during the Eocene. Subsequently, a three-staged process of isolation started with the Oligocene. During the Early Rupelian, the Thrace Basin was still part of the Western Tethys, indicated by typical Western Tethyan marine assemblages. The isolation from the Tethys during the Early Oligocene is reflected by oolite formation and endemic Eastern Paratethyan faunas of the Solenovian stage. The third phase reflects an increasing continentalisation of the Thrace Basin with widespread coastal swamps during the Late Solenovian. The mollusc assemblages are predominated by mangrove dwelling taxa and the mangrove plant Avicennia is recorded in the pollen spectra. The final continentalisation is indicated by the replacement of the coastal swamps by pure freshwater swamps and fluvial plains during the Late Oligocene (mammal zone MP 26). This paleogeographic affiliation of the Thrace Basin with the Eastern Paratethys after ~32 Ma contrasts all currently used reconstructions which treat the basin as embayment of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.  相似文献   

U-Pb Zircon Geochronology with an Integrated LA-ICP-MS Microanalytical Workstation: Achievements in Precision and Accuracy   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Luigi A. Solari  Arturo Gómez-Tuena  Juan Pablo Bernal  Ofelia Pérez-Arvizu  Martin Tanner 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2010,34(1):5-18

Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is a microanalytical tool especially suitable for providing fast and precise U-Pb geochronological results on zircon grains. A new 193 nm excimer laser adapted to a micromachining workstation, equipped with a newly designed two-volume ablation cell and coupled with a quadrupole ICP-MS, is presented here. The system was tuned routinely to achieve sensitivities in the range of 3000 cps/μg g⁻¹ for ²³⁸U (< 2% RSD), with a 34 μm spot size, at 5 Hz and ∼ 8 J cm⁻², while ablating the NIST SRM 612 glass reference material. The system was capable of providing fast (< 1.5 minutes each analysis) and precise (generally < 1.5% 1s errors) ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U zircon ages. The ages of widely used reference material zircons (Plesovice, 337 Ma; Temora, 416 Ma; R33, 418 Ma; Sri Lanka, 564 Ma; 91500, 1065 Ma) could be precisely matched, with an accuracy on isotopic ratios that ranged from ∼ 2 to ∼ 6%, depending on the homogeneity of the natural reference materials.  相似文献