The larger the impact,the less impact angle and impactor shape come into play and the more shock waves dominate the shape of the crater. The website...
Here is a nice post about the idea that Tharsis is created from an impact. Actually, the idea that the Hellas impact might have caused the Tharsis...
Now a nice site for calculating impact effects is this one: http://impact.ese.ic.../ImpactEffects/ Using a 400km iron meteor @51km/s and 45 degrees...
Gravity is symmetric in time, so saying an orbit can never be circularized is saying a circular orbit can never be destabilized. I understand how...
Wow, where to start. So many comments and so many misintrepretations I'm working on several different scenarios regarding the trajectory. The main...
Hello, A few years back I had the idea that the topography of Mars could have been largely created by a close encounter with Jupiter. I posted it on...
This is an odd news report from today... New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass June 5, 2011 article...
The Roche limit is was causes the event. You weren't clear on how you mean different, but I will assume you meant how it can create an orbital ring....
I have looked at the topography of Mars and have come to the conclusion that it was formed primarily by a cataclysmic event with Jupiter. I made a...
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