By the time icy objects grow to about the mass of Europa and silicate bodies grow to approximately lunar mass, a large high-speed impact can generate an intact melt region that allows the dense material to gravitationally segregate, forming a large density anomaly. If this anomaly generates sufficient differential stress, it rapidly segregates to the object's center, triggering whole body differentiation. We used an impact melting model based on the Hugoniot equations, the linear shock-particle velocity relationship, and the empirical relationship between shock pressure and distance coupled with a Monte Carlo simulation of the late accretion process to determine conditions under which large impacts trigger differentiation in icy bodies. In a gas-free environment, impacts of projectiles in the satellite's accretion zone have a small probability of triggering differentiation in surviving proto-satellites as small as Triton. The probability increases to 100% by the time surviving proto-satellites grow to the mass of Europa. The impact of heliocentric particles captured by the central planet also effectively triggers differentiation in the icy satellites. If the largest projectiles in the heliocentric distribution are comparable to the mass of the growing satellites, they trigger differentiation in all surviving proto-satellites by the time they grow to the mass of Callisto. However, Callisto and Ganymede have different probabilities of impact-induced differentiation if they captured a small fraction (0.01 and 0.5%) of the particles they accreted from a distribution of small (largest particles ~10% of the satellite's mass) heliocentric objects. Impact induced differentiation explains the apparent difference between these two objects in a plausible way.
During planet formation, numerous small impacting bodies result in cratering impacts on large target bodies. A fraction of the target surface is eroded, while a fraction of the impactor material accretes onto the surface. These fractions depend upon the impact velocities, the impact angles, and the escape velocities of the target. This study uses smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to model cratering impacts onto a planar icy target for which gravity is the dominant force and material strength is neglected. By evaluating numerical results, scaling laws are derived for the escape mass o…
This brief review will discuss the current knowledge on the origin and evolution of the nitrogen atmospheres of the icy bodies in the solar system, particularly of Titan, Triton and Pluto. An important tool to analyse and understand the origin and evolution of these atmospheres can be found in the different isotopic signatures of their atmospheric constituents. The $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratio of the N$_2$-dominated atmospheres of these bodies serve as a footprint of the building blocks from which Titan, Triton and Pluto originated and of the diverse fractionation processes that shaped these atmosp…
Solid body tides provide key information on the interior structure, evolution, and origin of the planetary bodies. Our Solar system harbours a very diverse population of planetary bodies, including those composed of rock, ice, gas, or a mixture of all. While a rich arsenal of geophysical methods has been developed over several years to infer knowledge about the interior of the Earth, the inventory of tools to investigate the interiors of other Solar-system bodies remains limited. With seismic data only available for the Earth, the Moon, and Mars, geodetic measurements, including the observatio…
Conditions in the outer protoplanetary disk during Solar System formation were thought to be favorable for the formation of amorphous water ice (AWI),a glassy phase of water ice. However, subsequent collisional processing could have shock crystallized any AWI present. Here we use the iSALE shock physics hydrocode to simulate impacts between large icy bodies at impact velocities relevant to these collisional environments, and then feed these results into a custom-built AWI crystallization script, to compute how much AWI crystallizes/survives these impact events. We find that impact speeds betwe…
The role of material strength in collisions -- Comparing solid body and hydrodynamic physics for simulating collisions of planetesimals with icy shells
Here we present an improved algorithm to model the serpentinization process in planetesimals in the early Solar system. Although it is hypothesized that serpentinization-like reactions played an important role in the thermal evolution of planetesimals, few and restricted models are available in this topic. These processes may be important as the materials involved were abundant in these objects. Our model is based on the model by (Gobi & Kereszturi 2017), and contains improvements in the consideration of heat capacities and lithospheric pressure, and in the calculation of the amount of interfa…
Accretion and differentiation of the terrestrial planets with implications for the compositions of early-formed Solar System bodies and accretion of water
Magmatic iron meteorite groups such as IIAB, IIIAB and IVA, represent the largest sampling of extraterrestrial core material from the earliest accreted distinct planetary bodies in the solar system. Chromium isotope compositions of chromite/daubreelite from seven samples, translated into 53Cr/52Cr model ages, provide robust time information on planetary core formation. These ages range within 1.5 Ma after formation of calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) and define the time of metal core formation in the respective parent bodies, assuming metal-silicate separation was an instantaneous even…
Electron impact ionization is critical in producing the ionospheres on many planetary bodies and, as discussed here, is critical for interpreting spacecraft and telescopic observations of the tenuous atmospheres of the icy Galilean satellites of Jupiter (Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), which form an interesting planetary system. Fortunately, laboratory measurements, extrapolated by theoretical models, were developed and published over a number of years by K. Becker and colleagues (see Deutsch et al. 2009) to provide accurate electron impact ionization cross sections for atoms and molecules, w…
Dynamical models of Solar System evolution have suggested that P-/D-type volatile-rich asteroids formed in the outer Solar System and may be genetically related to the Jupiter Trojans, the comets and small KBOs. Indeed, their spectral properties resemble that of anhydrous cometary dust. High-angular-resolution images of P-type asteroid (87) Sylvia with VLT/SPHERE were used to reconstruct its 3D shape, and to study the dynamics of its two satellites. We also model Sylvia's thermal evolution. The shape of Sylvia appears flattened and elongated. We derive a volume-equivalent diameter of 271 +/- 5…
The petrologic and geochemical diversity of meteorites is a function of the bulk composition of their parent bodies, but also the result of how and when internal differentiation took place. Here we focus on this second aspect considering the two principal parameters involved: size and accretion time of the body. We discuss the interplay of the various time scales related to heating, cooling and drainage of silicate liquids. Based on two phase flow modelling in 1-D spherical geometry, we show that drainage time is proportional to two independent parameters: $μ_m/R^2$, the ratio of the matrix vi…
Volatile compositions of asteroids provide information on the Solar System history and the origins of Earth's volatiles. Visible to near-infrared observations at wavelengths of $<2.5\ {\rm μm}$ have suggested a genetic link between outer main belt asteroids located at $2.5$-$4\ {\rm au}$ and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites (CCs) that show isotopic similarities to volatile elements on Earth. However, recent longer wavelength data for large outer main belt asteroids show $3.1\ {\rm μm}$ absorption features of ammoniated phyllosilicates that are absent in CCs and cannot easily form from materia…
Numerical Simulations of Hypervelocity Micrometeoroid Impacts: Rocky Impactors onto Icy Targets and the Role of Porosity
Earth-Life Science Institute, Institute of Science Tokyo（地球生命研究所，东京科学大学）；Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris（巴黎西岱大学，巴黎地球物理研究所）；Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and Science, Rikkyo University（立教大学人工智能与科学研究生院）；SpaceData Inc.（SpaceData公司）；Purdue University（普渡大学）
Lund University（隆德大学）；Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de Genève（日内瓦大学天文台）；University of Warwick（华威大学）；Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, University of Warwick（华威系外行星与宜居性中心）；University of Exeter（埃克塞特大学）；University of Leeds（利兹大学）；Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences（斯洛伐克科学院天文研究所）；Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine（乌克兰国家科学院主天文台）；Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab（吉米天文台/美国国家光学红外天文研究实验室）
Long-lived thermal dynamo generation on differentiated, impact-disrupted planetesimals
organization= Centre for Planetary Habitability , addressline= Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo , city= Oslo , country= Norway；organization= Department of Earth Sciences , addressline= University of Oxford, South Parks Road , city= Oxford , postcode= OX1 3AN , country= UK
Colors and taxonomy of Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects
对半人马座和海王星外天体（TNO）表面性质的研究提供了有关外太阳系早期条件和演化的重要信息。由于大多数这些遥远的冰体都很微弱，测光目前是调查其中统计上重要数量的最佳技术。我们的目标是研究大样本外太阳系小天体的颜色特性，并确定它们的分类。我们分别利用甚大望远镜（欧洲南方天文台）的FORS 2和ISAAC仪器对半人马座和TNO进行了可见光和近红外测光。使用G模式分析，我们根据Barucci et al.（2005 a）系统推导出分类学分类。我们报告了31个天体的光度观测，其中10个天体的颜色是首次报道。28个半人马和TNOs已被分配到一个分类。我们将整个样本的38个对象（28个对象来自这项工作，10个对象来自DeMeo et al. 2009 a）与以前分类的TNOs和半人马结合起来，寻找分类和动态之间的相关性。我们比较了我们的光度测量结果的文献数据，发现暗示的异质性表面的4个对象。
Small bodies, the unaccreted leftovers of planetary formation, are often mistaken for the leftovers of planetary science in the sense that they are everything else after the planets and their satellites (or sometimes just their regular satellites) are accounted for. This mistaken view elides the great diversity of compositions, histories, and present-day conditions and processes found in the small bodies, and the interdisciplinary nature of their study. Understanding small bodies is critical to planetary science as a field, and we urge planetary scientists and our decision makers to continue t…
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Space Telescope Science Institute（太空望远镜科学研究所）；Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室）；University of Oviedo（奥维耶多大学）；University of Central Florida（中佛罗里达大学）；The University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学）；Goddard Space Flight Center（戈达德太空飞行中心）
The surface granularity of small Solar System bodies is diverse through the different types of planetary bodies and even for specific objects it is often not known in detail. One of the physical properties that strongly depends on the surface structure is the surface temperature. In highly porous media with large voids, radiation can efficiently transport heat, whereas more compact, micro-porous structures transport the heat primarily by conduction through the solid material. In this work, we investigate under which conditions a macro-porous surface can be distinguished from a micro-porous one…
