Heating in collisions of solids:possible application to impact craters
arXiv:1202.2138 · doi:10.2298/SAJ1284083C
Abstract
Due to the importance of collisions and impacts in early phases of the evolution of the planetary system, it is interesting to estimate the heating of a solid target due to an impact in it . A physically simple calculation of the temperature to which a solid target heats up after the impact of a projectile with mass and speed is performed,and possibilities for the application of this result in planetology are pointed out.
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