Tidal disruption of strengthless rubble piles - A dimensional analysis

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 1998, Pages 1677-1682

  Hahn, Joseph M ^a   Rettig, Terrence W ^b  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041162158     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(98)00055-5     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Asphaug, E. and Benz, W. (1994) Density of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 deduced by modeling breakup of the parent "rubble pile". Nature 370, 120-123.
2. Asphaug, E. and Benz, W. (1996) Size, density, and structure of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 inferred from the physics of tidal breakup. Icarus 121, 225-248.
3. Binney, J. and Tremaine, S. (1987) Galactic Dynamics, p. 37. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
4. Bottke, W. F., Richardson, D. C and Love, S. G. (1997a) Can tidal disruption of asteroids make crater chains on Earth and Moon. Icarus 126, 470-474.
5. Bottke, W. F., Richardson, D. C and Love, S. G. (1997b) Production of Tunguska-sized bodies by Earth's tidal forces. Planetary and Space Science, in press.
6. Davis, D. R., Chapman, C. R., Greenberg, R. and Weidenschilling, S. J. (1979) Collisional evolution of asteroids: populations, rotations, and velocities. In Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, p. 528-557. University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
7. Melosh, H. J. and Schenk, P. (1993) Split comets and the origin of crater chains on Ganymede and Callisto. Nature 365, 731-733.
8. McKinnon, W. B. and Schenk, P. (1995) Estimates of comet fragment masses from impact crater chains on Callisto and Ganymede. GRL 22, 1829-1832.
9. Retrig, T. W., Mumma, M. J., Sobczak, G. J., Hahn, J. M. and DiSanti, M. (1996) The nature of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 subnuclei from analysis of preimpact Hubble Space Telescope images. JGR 101, 9271-9281.
10. Scotti, J. V and Melosh, H. J. (1993) Estimate of the size of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from a tidal breakup model. Nature 365, 733-735.
11. Schenk, P. M., Asphaug, E., McKinnon, W. B., Melosh, H. J. and Weissman, P. R. (1996) Cometary nuclei and tidal disruption: the geological record of crater chains on Callisto and Ganymede. Icarus 121, 249-274.
12. Solem, J. C. (1994) Density and size of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 deduced from a tidal breakup model. Nature 370, 349-351.
13. Sridhar, S. and Tremaine, S. (1992) Tidal disruption of viscous bodies. Icarus 95, 86-99.
14. Weismann, P. R. (1986) Are cometary nuclei primordial rubble piles? Nature 320, 242-244.