Understanding oblique impacts from experiments, observations, and modeling

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue , 2000, Pages 141-167

  Pierazzo, E ^a   Melosh, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejecta distribution; Hydrocode simulations; Impact angle; Oblique impacts; Ricochet

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY; MOON; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GRAVITATION; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON; PLANETS;

EID: 0033785519     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.28.1.141     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Fluid outflows from Venus impact craters: Analysis from Magellan data
2. An overview of impact cratering
3. The origin of the moon and the single impact hypothesis III
4. Numerical modeling of oblique hypervelocity impact using two-dimensional plane strain models
5. Impact crater outflows on Venus: Morphology and emplacement mechanisms
6. Cratering of planetary satellites
7. The effects of target characteristics on fresh crater morphology: Preliminary results for the Moon and Mercury
8. The scaling of complex craters
9. Shock decay in oblique impacts
10. In-target stress wave momentum content in oblique impacts
11. On the volcanoes of the Moon
12. Geochemical evolution of the Eucrite Parent Body: Possible nature and evolution of Asteroid 4 Vesta?
13. Center features diagnostic of oblique impacts: The central peak offset
14. The effects of impact angle on the shape of lunar craters
15. Origin of the Western Arabian Shelf: Oblique impact formation of the Chryse Basin?
16. Displaced mass, depth, diameter, and effects of oblique trajectories for impact craters formed in dense crystalline rocks
17. Experimental studies of oblique impacts
18. The mountains of the Moon
19. The moon's face, a study of the origin of its features
20. The elliptical crater populations on the Moon, Mars, and Venus
21. Shock deformation of brittle solids
22. Extraterrestrial impact events: The records in the rocks and the stratigraphic column
23. Thermal feedback in liquid flow: Plane shear at constant stress
24. Central peaks in lunar craters: Morphology and morphometry
25. Effects of layering on spall velocity: Numerical simulations
26. Morphology and morphometry of impact craters
27. The topography of oblique impact craters on Venus and the Moon
28. A possible Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
29. Mapping Chicxulub crater structure with overlapping gravity and seismic surveys
30. Point source solutions and coupling parameters in cratering mechanics
31. Impact cratering on Venus: Physical and mechanical models
32. Some large-scale experiments imitating the craters of the Moon
33. 39Ar age and its distal impact ejecta in the Pierre Shale in southeastern South Dakota
34. Surface property variations in Venusian fluidized ejecta blanket craters
35. The role of volatiles and lithology in the impact cratering process
36. Origin of asteroid rotation rates in catastrophic impacts
37. CTH: A three-dimensional shock wave physics code
38. Impact ejection, spallation and the origin of certain meteorites
39. Giant impact theory of the Moon's origin: First 3-D hydrocode results
40. Do oblique impacts produce Martian meteorites?
41. The oblique impact hypothesis and relative probabilities of lunar and Martian meteorites
42. Meteorite impact ejecta: Dependence of mass and energy lost on planetary escape velocity
43. Oblique impact: A process for obtaining meteorite samples from other plants
44. Note on the meteoric theory of lunar craters
45. Impact craters and Venus resurfacing history
46. Modeling Chicxulub as an oblique impact event: Results of hydrocode simulations
47. Hydrocode simulation of the Chicxulub impact event and the production of climatically active gases
48. Hydrocode modeling of Chicxulub as an oblique impact event
49. Melt production in oblique impacts
50. Melt production in oblique impacts
51. Hydrocode modeling of oblique impacts: The fate of the projectile
52. Depth/diameter relations of fresh lunar craters: Revision from spacecraft data
53. Impact winter and the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions
54. Energy, volatile production, and climatic effects of the Chicxulub Cretaceous/Tertiary impact
55. Shapes of craters formed in plaster of paris by ultra-speed pellets
56. Large-scale impact and explosion craters: Comparisons of morphological and structural analogs
57. Geology and distribution of impact craters on Venus: What are they telling us?
58. Some recent advances in the scaling of impact and explosion cratering
59. Atmospheric effects on ejecta emplacement and crater formation on Venus from Magellan
60. Chicxulub as an oblique impact
61. Making the man in the moon: Origin of the Imbrium Basin
62. Effect of impact angle on vaporization
63. Nature of the Orientale and Crisium impacts
64. Forming the South-Pole-Aitken Basin: The extreme games
65. Ejecta distribution from oblique impacts into particulate targets
66. Grazing impacts on Mars: A record of lost satellites
67. Recent grazing impacts on the Earth recorded in the Rio Cuarto crater field, Argentina
68. Asymmetry of the Manson impact structure: Evidence for impact angle and direction
69. Cretaceous-Tertiary (Chicxulub) impact angle and its consequences
70. Fate of the Chicxulub impactor
71. Ground truth for oblique impact processes: New insight from the Rio Cuarto, Argentina, crater field
72. Extinction and the fossil record
73. Interpretation of lunar craters
74. Why study impact craters?
75. Fresh lunar craters: Morphology as a function of diameter, a possible criterion for crater origin
76. Experimental hypervelocity impact into quartz sand: Distribution and shock metamorphism of ejecta
77. The Martian impact cratering record
78. Effect of an impact-generated gas cloud on the acceleration of solid ejecta
79. Basaltic volcanism: The importance of planet size
80. Dynamical, chemical and isotopic evidence regarding the formation locations of asteroids and meteorites
81. Deposition of the Crow Creek Member, Campanian, South Dakota and Nebraska