Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids (eBook)

Jakob Deller has defended his PhD thesis in September 2015. His PhD project was jointly accompanied and funded by the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen. He was awarded the Pierazzo International Student Travel Award by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, and presented his work in multiple international conferences. He gained observing experience at the NTT at La Silla Observatory, Chile.He was awarded his M. Sc. in November 2011 with a thesis on the ‘Stability of some recently found circumbinary systems’ supervised by Prof. Dr. S. Dreizler at the Institute for Astrophysics Göttingen, Germany. 

Introduction.- Asteroids and Comets in the Solar System.- The Interior of Asteroids.- Impact Processes in the Solar System.- Simulating Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids.- Methods.- Numerical Simulations of Impact Events.- Gravitational Forces in High-Resolution Impact Simulations.- A New Approach to Modelling Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Simulants.- Rubble Pile Asteroid Simulants.- Hydrocode Impact Simulations.- Assessing the Influence of Rubble Pile Structures on ImpactSimulations.- Comparing Outcomes of Simulations.- Results — Sensitivity to Model Parameters.- Summary.- Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Šteins.- Asteroid Šteins.- Šteins as a Rubble Pile Asteroid.- Simulating Crater-Forming Impacts on Asteroid Šteins.- The Influence of Gravitational Forces on Simulated Impactson Šteins.- Reproducing Surface Features Observed on Šteins.- Asteroid Šteins: Conclusions.- Discussion.- A Simulant for the Large Scale Structure of Rubble Pile Asteroids.- The Internal Structure of Rubble Pile Asteroids in Impact Events.- Linking Surface Features on Šteins to its Internal Structure.- Šteins as a YORP Evolved Asteroid.- Applicability of the Rubble Pile Interior Model.- Future Applications of the Model.- Bibliography.-