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Modelling Large Body Impacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Helen Pongracic
Helen Pongracic*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University
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Abstract

Hypervelocity impacts are considered to be the main mechanism for the production of craters on the surfaces of planets and moons. Two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations for the first few seconds of large-body impacts will be discussed. Both normal and oblique impacts will be considered, with particular emphasis being placed on the distribution of impact products.

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Theoretical
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , 1987 , pp. 136 - 138
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1987

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