The Effect of the Heat of Impact on the Activation of Main Belt Comets
- Author(s)
- J. Werner, Thomas Maindl, Nader Haghighipour, Christoph Schäfer, Roland Speith, Wilhelm Kley
- Abstract
Main Belt Comets' activity is assumed to be driven by the sublimation of volatiles, making them candidates for the delivery of a part of Earth's water. We simulate impacts of smaller objects that could have played a major role in activating them.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, University of Hawaii
- Publication date
- 08-2016
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/86bb33dd-6e0e-4cdb-bc29-e7244f75b948