Asteroid Collisions

What are the conditions necessary for remnant growth?

Site under construction: July 9, 2020

As of May 2024 this site may finally get some updates since the papers are being published. Nothing has changed yet.

Low velocity shear collision.

Blender render of a cluster spun around it's own center of mass and allowed to self gravitate.

OutlineAnimations

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• Currently using trello for this

• Consider tracking changes here

Spinning asteroid showing slight expansion along the equator. Spinning about the Y axis.

Two same size on axis clusters configured for collision.

2D cluster before gravitational collapse

Stress chains visualized as a function of ball compression.

Impact parameter definition.

Old style. Needs update. Distribution of kinetic energy among all particles in a sample collision.

Sanchez comparison collapsing.