Insight into the Distribution of High-pressure Shock Metamorphism in Rubble-pile Asteroids

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac83c0" target="_blank" >10.3847/PSJ/ac83c0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Insight into the Distribution of High-pressure Shock Metamorphism in Rubble-pile Asteroids

Original language description

Shock metamorphism in ordinary chondrites allows for reconstructing impact events between asteroids in the main asteroid belt. Shock-darkening of ordinary chondrites occurs at the onset of complete shock melting of the rock (>70 GPa) or injection of sulfide and metal melt into the cracks within solid silicates (∼50 GPa). Darkening of ordinary chondrites masks diagnostic silicate features observed in the reflectance spectrum of S-complex asteroids so they appear similar to C/X-complex asteroids. In this work, we investigate the shock pressure and associated metamorphism pattern in rubble-pile asteroids at impact velocities of 4–10 km s−1. We use the iSALE shock physics code and implement two-dimensional models with simplified properties in order to quantify the influence of the following parameters on shock-darkening efficiency: impact velocity, porosity within the asteroid, impactor size, and ejection efficiency. We observe that, in rubble-pile asteroids, the velocity and size of the impactor are the constraining parameters in recording high-grade shock metamorphism. Yet, the recorded fraction of higher shock stages remains low (<0.2). Varying the porosity of the boulders from 10% to 30% does not significantly affect thedistribution of pressure and fraction of shock-darkened material. The pressure distribution in rubble-pile asteroids is very similar to that of monolithic asteroids with the same porosity. Thus, producing significant volumes of highdegree shocked ordinary chondrites requires strong collision events (impact velocities above 8 km s−1 and/or large sizes of impactors). A large amount of asteroid material escapes during an impact event (up to 90%), however, only a small portion of the escaping material is shock-darkened (6%).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Planetary Science Journal

ISSN

2632-3338

e-ISSN

2632-3338

Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

198

UT code for WoS article

000912991700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85142020062