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Making and braking asteroids

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Figure 1: Simulation of an 8-m-radius meteoroid striking the near-Earth-asteroid 4769 Castalia at 5 km s−1.

S. SUZUKI & E. M. DE JONG, DIAL-JPL, NASA

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Harris, A. Making and braking asteroids. Nature 393, 418–419 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/30857

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