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Collisional formation of top-shaped asteroids and implications for the origins of Ryugu and Bennu.

ABSTRACT: Asteroid shapes and hydration levels can serve as tracers of their history and origin. For instance, the asteroids (162173) Ryugu and (101955) Bennu have an oblate spheroidal shape with a pronounced equator, but contain different surface hydration levels. Here we show, through numerical simulations of large asteroid disruptions, that oblate spheroids, some of which have a pronounced equator defining a spinning top shape, can form directly through gravitational reaccumulation. We further show that rubble piles formed in a single disruption can have similar porosities but variable degrees of hydration. The direct formation of top shapes from single disruption alone can explain the relatively old crater-retention ages of the equatorial features of Ryugu and Bennu. Two separate parent-body disruptions are not necessarily required to explain their different hydration levels.

SUBMITTER: Michel P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7253434 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Collisional formation of top-shaped asteroids and implications for the origins of Ryugu and Bennu.

Michel P P Ballouz R-L RL Barnouin O S OS Jutzi M M Walsh K J KJ May B H BH Manzoni C C Richardson D C DC Schwartz S R SR Sugita S S Watanabe S S Miyamoto H H Hirabayashi M M Bottke W F WF Connolly H C HC Yoshikawa M M Lauretta D S DS

Nature communications 20200527 1

Asteroid shapes and hydration levels can serve as tracers of their history and origin. For instance, the asteroids (162173) Ryugu and (101955) Bennu have an oblate spheroidal shape with a pronounced equator, but contain different surface hydration levels. Here we show, through numerical simulations of large asteroid disruptions, that oblate spheroids, some of which have a pronounced equator defining a spinning top shape, can form directly through gravitational reaccumulation. We further show tha ...[more]

PMID: 32461569

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