{"id":36460,"date":"2024-07-31T01:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=36460"},"modified":"2024-07-31T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:08:09","slug":"fast-boulder-fracturing-by-thermal-fatigue-detected-on-stony-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=36460","title":{"rendered":"Fast boulder fracturing by thermal fatigue detected on stony asteroids<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A. Lucchetti, S. Cambioni, R. Nakano, O. S. Barnouin, M. Pajola, L. Penasa, F. Tusberti, K. T. Ramesh, E. Dotto, C. M. Ernst, R. T. Daly, E. Mazzotta Epifani, M. Hirabayashi, L. Parro, G. Poggiali, A. Campo Bagatin, R.-L. Ballouz, N. L. Chabot, P. Michel, N. Murdoch, J. B. Vincent, \u00d6. Karatekin, A. S. Rivkin, J. M. Sunshine, T. Kohout, J.D.P. Deshapriya, P.H.A. Hasselmann, S. Ieva, J. Beccarelli, S. L. Ivanovski, A. Rossi, F. Ferrari, C. Rossi, S. D. Raducan, J. Steckloff, S. Schwartz, J. R. Brucato, M. Dall\u2019Ora, A. Zinzi, A. F. Cheng, M. Amoroso, I. Bertini, A. Capannolo, S. Caporali, M. Ceresoli, G. Cremonese, V. Della Corte, I. Gai, L. Gomez Casajus, E. Gramigna, G. Impresario, R. Lasagni Manghi, M. Lavagna, M. Lombardo, D. Modenini, P. Palumbo, D. Perna, S. Pirrotta, P. Tortora, M. Zannoni &amp; G. Zanotti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature Communications, Volume 15, Article number: 6206<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-50145-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-50145-y.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures due to thermal stresses. However, signatures of this process on the second-most populous group of asteroids, the S-complex, have been poorly constrained. Here, we report observations of boulders\u2019 fractures on Dimorphos, which is the moonlet of the S-complex asteroid (65803) Didymos, the target of NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary defense mission. We show that the size-frequency distribution and orientation of the mapped fractures are consistent with formation through thermal fatigue. The fractures\u2019 preferential orientation supports that these have originated in situ on Dimorphos boulders and not on Didymos boulders later transferred to Dimorphos. Based on our model of the fracture propagation, we propose that thermal fatigue on rocks exposed on the surface of S-type asteroids can form shallow, horizontally propagating fractures in much shorter timescales (100\u2009kyr) than in the direction normal to the boulder surface (order of Myrs). The presence of boulder fields affected by thermal fracturing on near-Earth asteroid surfaces may contribute to an enhancement in the ejected mass and momentum from kinetic impactors when deflecting asteroids.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Lucchetti, S. Cambioni, R. Nakano, O. S. Barnouin, M. Pajola, L. Penasa, F. Tusberti, K. T. Ramesh, E. Dotto, C. M. Ernst, R. T. Daly, E. Mazzotta Epifani, M. Hirabayashi, L. Parro, G. Poggiali,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,3035,1184],"tags":[1771,2058,3274,6388,5417,6390,4827,6355,4343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36461,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36460\/revisions\/36461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}