Hazards by meteoroid impacts onto operational spacecraft

Transient atmosphere generated by large

Transient atmosphere generated by large meteoroid impacts onto an atmosphereless cosmic body: gasdynamic and physical processes

✍ I.V. Nemtchinov; V.V. Shuvalov; N.A. Artemieva; I.B. Kosarev; S.I. Popel 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 254 KB

Impact of a large meteoroid or a man-made projectile with an atmosphereless cosmic body (Moon, Mercury, asteroid and comet) produces a transient atmosphere. Several physical aspects in the early and late phases of the impact generated vapor plume evolution are considered numerically and analytically