Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragment size estimates: How big was the parent body

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 822, Issue , 1997, Pages 155-173

  Crawford, David A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0030785746     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48340.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. BOSLOUGH, M.B. & D.A. CRAWFORD. 1997. Shoemaker-Levy 9 and plume-forming collisons on Earth. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Near-Earth Objects. United Nations/Explorers Club, New York. April 24-26, 1995. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. This volume.
2. CARLSON, B., ET AL. 1997. Temperature, Size, and Energy of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 G-Impact fireball. Icarus. In press.
3. CEPLECHA, Z., ET AL. 1993. Atmospheric fragmentation of meteoroids. Astron. and Astrophys. 279: 615-626.
4. CHAPMAN, C.R. 1996. Galileo observations of the impact. In The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, & P.D. Feldman, Eds.: 121-132. Cambridge Univ. Press.
5. CRAWFORD, D.A., ET AL. 1994. The impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. Shock Waves. 4: 47-50.
6. CRAWFORD, D.A., ET AL. 1995. The impact of periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. Int. J. Impact Engin. 17: 253-262.
7. CRAWFORD, D.A. 1996. Models of fragment penetration and fireball evolution. In The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, & P. D. Feldman, Eds.: 133-156. Cambridge Univ. Press.
8. HAMMEL, H.B., ET AL. 1995. HST Imaging of atmospheric phenomena created by the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Science. 267: 1288-1296.
9. HAMMEL, H. B., ET AL. 1996. HST imaging of Jupiter shortly after each impact: Plumes and fresh sites. In The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, & P.D. Feldman, Eds.: 111-120. Cambridge Univ. Press.
10. HILLS, J.G. & M.P. GODA. 1993. The fragmentation of small asteroids in the atmosphere. Astro. J. 105: 1114-1144.
11. IVANOV, B.A. & O. YU. 1988. Simple hydrodynamic model of atmospheric breakup of hypervelocity projectiles. Lun. Planet. Sci. 19: 535-536.
12. LAGAGE, P.O., ET AL. 1995. SL-9 fragments A, E, H, L, Q1 collision on to Jupiter: Mid-infrared light curves. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22: 1773.
13. MCGREGOR, P., ET AL. 1996. CASPIR observations of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Icarus. 121: 361-388.
14. NEMTCHINOV, I.V., ET AL. 1996. Spectral opacities and ablation rates for recognized meteoroid materials, Interim Report 001 on task 1.0 under the Sandia National Laboratories Contract AS-6889, Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 136 pp.
15. NEMTCHINOV, I.V., ET AL. 1997. Assesment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy fragment sizes using light curves measured by Galileo spacecraft instruments. Planet Space Sci. 45: 311-326.
16. NICHOLSON, P.D. 1996. Earth-based observations of impact phenomena. In The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, & P.D. Feldman, Eds.: 81-109. Cambridge Univ. Press.
17. ROULSTON, M.S. & T.J. AHRENS. 1997. Impact Mechanics and frequency of SL9-type events on Jupiter. Icarus. 126: 138-147..
18. SCOTTI, J.V. & H.J. MELOSH. 1993. Tidal breakup and dispersion of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9: Estimate of Progenitor Size. Nature. 365: 7333.
19. SEKANINA, Z. 1993. Disintegration phenomena expected during the forthcoming collision of periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Science. 262: 382.
20. TAKEUCHI, S., ET AL. 1995. Near-IR imaging observations of the cometary impact into Jupiter: Time variation of radiation from impacts of fragments C, D and K. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22: 1581
21. WEST, R.A. 1996. Particulate matter in Jupiter's atmosphere from the impacts of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. In The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, & P.D. Feldman, Eds.: 269-292. Cambridge Univ. Press.
22. ZAHNLE, K. & M.M. MacLow. 1994. The Collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Icarus. 108: 1-17.
23. ZAHNLE, K. 1992. Airburst origin of dark shadows on Venus. J. Geophys. Res. 97: 10243-10255.
24. ASPHAUG, E. & W. BENZ. 1994. Density of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 deduced by modelling breakup of the parent "ruble pile." Nature. 370: 120-124.
25. CHEVALIER, R.A. & C.L. SARAZIN. 1994. Explosions of infalling comets in Jupiter's atmosphere. Astrophys. J. 429: 863-875.
26. MCGLAUN, J.M., S.L. THOMPSON, & M.G. ELRICK. 1990. CTH - A three-dimensional shock-wave physics code. Int. J. Impact Engin. 10: 351.