On stress, strength, and failure in asteroids during planetary entry

Efforts to characterize the danger posed by asteroids have motivated an effort to model their entry and breakup in Earth’s atmosphere. These models, crucial to planetary defense efforts, necessitate an understanding of the physics underlying fragmentation — including knowledge of key governing physi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rulko, Theo Artur
Other Authors: Radovitzky, Raul A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155412