asteroid fragmentation

Stress analysis of asteroids during atmospheric entry and implications for the breakup criterion

07/03/2025 16:34 · by karmaka · in asteroid, Earth, meteor/meteoroid/bolide

Théo A. Rulko, Aaditya Rau, Grégoire Chomette, Lorien Wheeler, Donovan Mathias , Jessie Dotson, Raúl Radovitzky Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 7 March 2025 LINK “Highlights “Observations of asteroid fragmentation upon atmospheric entry…

Fragmentation model and strewn field estimation for meteoroids entryOPEN ACCESS

24/05/2021 12:50 · by karmaka · in Almahata Sitta, meteor/meteoroid/bolide, witnessed fall

S. Limonta, M. Trisolini, S. Frey, C. Colombo IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 May 2021 LINK Update (1 June 2021): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Novel probabilistic model of asteroid breakup based on…

Evidence for early fragmentation-reassembly of ordinary chondrite (H, L, and LL) parent bodies from REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometry

17/09/2020 14:27 · by karmaka · in H, L, LL, ordinary chondrite, parent body

Michael P. Lucas, Nick Dygert, Jialong Ren, Marc A. Hesse, Nathaniel R. Miller, Harry Y. McSween Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 17 September 2020 LINK “Ordinary chondrites (OCs) are variably thermally…

Scale-Dependent Measurements of Meteorite Strength: Implications for Asteroid Fragmentation.

09/05/2016 12:48 · by karmaka · in asteroid

Desireé Cotto-Figueroa, Erik Asphaug, Laurence A.J. Garvie, Ashwin Rai, Joel Johnston, Luke Borkowski, Siddhant Datta, Aditi Chattopadhyay, Melissa A. Morris Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 May 2016 LINK “Measuring the strengths of…