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Author(s)
Miljković, Katarina
Collins, Gareth S
Bland, Philip A
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In Miljković et al. (2013) we resolved the apparent contradiction that while 15% of the Near Earth Asteroid (impactor) population are binaries, only 2–4% of craters formed on Earth and Mars (target planet) are doublet craters. Using 3D hydrocode simulations to explore the physics of binary impacts, we showed that only 2% of binary asteroid impacts produced well-separated doublets, while the rest covered morphologies ranging from overlapping to elliptical or even circular. We then generated a complete classification dataset to aid in the identification of the (sometimes subtle) morphological characteristics consistent with a binary asteroid impact. We thank Schmieder et al. (2013) for providing additional detailed geochronological constraints which indicate that our lower bound of 2% doublet craters on Earth may in fact be ≤1.5%.
Date Issued
2014-11
Citation
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014, 405, pp.285-286
ISSN
0012-821X
Start Page
285
End Page
286
Journal / Book Title
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume
405
Copyright Statement
© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, Vol.: 405, (2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.026
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Article Number
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