The Appearance of a "Fresh" Surface on 596 Scheila as a Consequence of the 2010 Impact Event

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Main Authors: Hasegawa, Sunao, Marsset, Michaël, Demeo, Francesca E., Bus, Schelte J., Ishiguro, Masateru, Kuroda, Daisuke, Binzel, Richard P., Hanuš, Josef, Nakamura, Akiko M., Yang, Bin, Vernazza, Pierre
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: 1469; 72; 2036; 2209; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Tagish; Tagish Lake
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-03667485; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03667485/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03667485/file/Hasegawa_2022_ApJL_924_L9.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac415a

International audience Dust emission was detected on main-belt asteroid 596 Scheila in 2010 December and was attributed to the collision of a few-tens-of-meters projectile on the surface of the asteroid. In such an impact, the ejected material from the collided body is expected to mainly come from i...