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Free particle modelling of hypervelocity asteroid collisions with the Earth |
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| Authors: | K Jach J Leliwa-Kopysty&#x ski M Mroczkowski R wierczy&#x ski and P Wola&#x ski |
| Institution: | 1Military Academy of Technology, ul. Kaliskiego 2, 01-489 Warszawa, Poland 2University of Warsaw, Institute of Geophysics, ul. Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland and Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland 3Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Heat Engineering, ul. Nowowiejska 25/29, 00-665 Warszawa, Poland |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a time-dependent two-dimensional numerical model of the impact phenomena. The model deals with formation and evolution of a crater, formation of an impact jet, and with global deformation and dynamical parameters of the impacted body. The model is applied to study the problem of deformation of the Earth when impacted by an asteroid. A hydrodynamical code of the free particle numerical method (HEFP) is applied to a silicate asteroid (impactor) and to the multilayered spherical Earth (target) described by the PREM model. The asteroids radii are within a range between 5 and 800 km. The velocity range is 20–30 km s?1. Calculations cover the time intervals up to 2000 s. Each of the material points of the bodies under consideration (the Earth and an asteroid) is described by its time-dependent position, velocity, specific internal energy, pressure and density. The global results, among others, are as follows: (i) deformation of the Earth's surface; (ii) position of the shock wave within the Earth; (iii) deformation of consecutive layers within the Earth's interior, and (iv) morphology of the crater including behavior of the impact jet and deformation of the impactor. |
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