1. Collisional evolution of asteroids and asteroid families
- Creator:
- Paolicchi, P. and Zappalã, V.
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- catastrophic collisions, asteroids, and asteroid families
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Catastrophic or nearly-catastrophic collisions are the most important physical process affecting the evolution of asteroids following the primordial phases. After a generál review of the current ideas about collisional evolution, also in the light of laboratory impact experiments, the problems concerning the interpretation of asteroid families as outcomes of catastrophic processes are discussed. Finally, it is shown how the present, non completely satisfactory, knowledge of collisional processes can give important indications on the early phases of evolution of the asteroid belt.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public