2 papers
astro-ph.EP2024
New versus past silica crush curve experiments: application to Dimorphos benchmarking impact simulations
Uri Malamud, Christoph M. Schafer, Irina Luciana San Sebastian +7
Crush curves are of fundamental importance to numerical modeling of small and porous astrophysical bodies. The empirical literature often measures them for silica grains, and diffe…
astro-ph.EP2024
A link between the size and composition of comets
James E. Robinson, Uri Malamud, Cyrielle Opitom +2
All cometary nuclei that formed in the early Solar System incorporated radionuclides and therefore were subject to internal radiogenic heating. Previous work predicts that if comet…