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水星上的撞击坑:自旋演化的结果

Impact cratering on Mercury: consequences for the spin evolution

Alexandre C. M. Correia, Jacques Laskar

摘要:

由水手10号和信使号飞越图像确定的撞击盆地为我们提供了太阳系早期最后阶段水星上小行星撞击通量的图解记录。这些盆地在整个地表的分布并不均匀,与原始同步旋转一致(Wieczorek等人,2012年)。通过分析撞击的大小,我们发现,小行星直径D < 110公里的分布符合指数幂律1.2,这一数值与预测的主带原始分布相匹配。然后,我们推导出一个简单的碰撞模型与观测相一致,当结合它与长期的水星自旋的演变,我们能够重现目前的3/2自旋轨道共振(约50%的机会),以及原始的同步旋转。这个结果是强大的耗散和碰撞模型的变化,或在初始自旋状态的行星。

英文摘要:

Impact basins identified by Mariner 10 and Messenger flyby images provide us a fossilized record of the impactor flux of asteroids on Mercury during the last stages of the early Solar System. The distribution of these basins is not uniform across the surface, and is consistent with a primordial synchronous rotation (Wieczorek et al. 2012). By analyzing the size of the impacts, we show that the distribution for asteroid diameters D < 110 km is compatible with an index power law of 1.2, a value that matches the predicted primordial distribution of the main-belt. We then derive a simple collisional model coherent with the observations, and when combining it with the secular evolution of the spin of Mercury, we are able to reproduce the present 3/2 spin-orbit resonance (about 50% of chances), as well as a primordial synchronous rotation. This result is robust with respect to variations in the dissipation and collisional models, or in the initial spin state of the planet.

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