The Sizes of Impact Craters and Ejecta Spots on Asteroids

N. N. Gorkavyi, A. N. Rublevsky, V. V. Prokofjeva-Mihajlovskaya

Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei, In: A. M. Finkelstein, W. F. Huebner, V. A. Shor (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference “Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009”, StP: Nauka, 62–64 (2010)

Keywords: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Small Solar System Body (SSSB), asteroids, an impact model, meteoritic impacts, cratering process, impact craters, ejecta spots

Abstract

The formation of ejecta during the cratering process is characteristic for meteoritic impacts. On a simple impact model, analytic expression for a size of impact crater and ejecta spot are derived