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Impact! Unraveling Asteroids and Comets in Our Solar System

Delve into the fascinating realm of asteroids and comets, from the formation of the Solar System to the Chicxulub impact. Discover the Lunar history, Barringer Meteor Crater, and potential future collisions. Explore crucial collision factors like density, kinetic energy, and impact angles.

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Impact! Unraveling Asteroids and Comets in Our Solar System

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  1. IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Asteroids, comets, and YOU

  2. Formation of the Solar System

  3. Formation of the Moon

  4. Luna

  5. The Asteroid Belt is not like this

  6. Chicxulub 65 million years ago 180 km wide

  7. Barringer Meteor Crater (Arizona) 49,000 years ago 1.186 km diameter (0.737 miles)

  8. Area surrounding the 1908 Tunguska Event, circa 1927

  9. Artist’s Conception, just before impact

  10. When will the next collision occur?

  11. 2029 Orbit-changing encounter Asteroid 99942 Apophis Size: 300 meters Probabilty of Collision in 2036: 1 in 45,000 (as of last year)

  12. Factors important in asteroid collisions Planetary Gravitygplanet = 9.8 m/s

  13. Target Density Rocky Crust: ρ =2700 kg/m3 (Water: ρ =1000 kg/m3)

  14. Impactor Density Density: ρ= 3000 kg/m3 max Comet: ρ =300-700 kg/m3

  15. Kinetic Energy KE = ½mv2 vmeteor = 10 - 40 km/s (assume 30) Angle of Impact Most common: 45°

  16. Equation for Radius of Impactor from De Pater and Lissauer (2001) 0.401 (Dcrater)1.28 (ρplanet)0.42 (2700)0.42 (gplanet)0.28 (9.805)0.28 2.26×10-3 Rmeteor= (ρmeteor)0.42 (3000)0.42 (vmeteor)0.56 (30000)0.56

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