Numerical Simulations of Hypervelocity Micrometeoroid Impacts: Rocky Impactors onto Icy Targets and the Role of Porosity

Ryuki Hyodo, Shigeru Wakita, Brandon C. Johnson

In the outer Solar System, for example in the Saturnian system, a planet's strong gravity attracts micrometeoroids and generates hypervelocity impacts on bodies such as rings and s…