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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155412 |