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Bierhaus, Edward B.

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Discovery that secondary craters dominate Europa's small crater population.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Discovery that secondary craters dominate Europa's small crater population./
作者:	Bierhaus, Edward B.
面頁冊數:	293 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: B, page: 0857.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02B.
標題:	Engineering, Aerospace. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123229

Discovery that secondary craters dominate Europa's small crater population.
Bierhaus, Edward B.

Discovery that secondary craters dominate Europa's small crater population. - 293 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: B, page: 0857.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004.

This thesis presents data and analysis that demonstrate secondary craters (craters formed by material ejected from a primary impactor) dominate the small-crater (<1 km) population on Europa. Of the 17,000+ impact craters I measured in high-resolution images that cover only 0.2% of Europa's surface, 90% are clustered. I applied three spatial analysis techniques, including a novel hybrid of Monte Carlo and hierarchical clustering algorithms, to identify the clustered population. Additional analysis suggests that many unclustered craters are also secondaries; the true percentage of secondary craters is at least 95%. Least-squares, non-linear power-law fits to the differential (dN = kDb dD) size-distributions demonstrate that the secondaries have "steep" exponents, typically b < -4. Because the regions examined are at least hundreds of km away from any large primary crater, this is the first robust study of far-field secondary craters (those formed by material ejected at hundreds of m/s to over 1 km/s). I also measured 7,000+ near-field (only several parent crater radii distant) secondaries around Tyre, a 44 km primary crater on Europa, and measured 1,000+ near-field secondaries in a smaller area around Pwyll, a 26 km primary. The Pwyll data indicate a peak size for the near-field secondaries; the size-distribution at diameters larger than the peak size has very steep exponents, -6.3 to -7.8.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018395
Engineering, Aerospace.

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