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Accretion of Ornamental Equatorial Ridges on Pan, Atlas and Daphnis
Alice C. Quillen, Fatima Zaidouni, Miki Nakajima +1
We explore scenarios for the accretion of ornamental ridges on Saturn's moons Pan, Atlas, and Daphnis from material in Saturn's rings. Accretion of complex shaped ridges from ring…
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Ricochets on Asteroids: Experimental study of low velocity grazing impacts into granular media
Esteban Wright, Alice Quillen, Juiliana South +6
Spin off events and impacts can eject boulders from an asteroid surface and rubble pile asteroids can accumulate from debris following a collision between large asteroids. These pr…