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Entrega rápida de meteoritos a la Tierra después de una gran colisión de asteroides
Philipp R Heck1, Birger Schmitz, Heinrich Baur
1ETH Zürich, Isotope Geology, NO C61, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Nature
|July 16, 2004
Resumen
Los grandes impactos de asteroides pueden llevar rápidamente meteoritos a la Tierra. Este estudio confirma tiempos de transferencia cortos de aproximadamente 10^5 años para fragmentos de asteroides, validando las simulaciones orbitales.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ciencias planetarias Ciencias planetarias.
- Cosmoquímica es la cosmoquímica.
- Geología Geología Geología.
Sus antecedentes:
- Las colisiones del cinturón de asteroides pueden aumentar la tasa de impacto de meteoritos en la Tierra.
- La dinámica orbital sugiere que los fragmentos pueden llegar a la Tierra más rápido de lo que se observa actualmente.
- Los mecanismos eficientes de entrega de meteoritos de los impactos de asteroides requieren verificación empírica.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar los tiempos de transferencia de los meteoritos de las colisiones de asteroides a la Tierra.
- Proporcionar evidencia empírica para la entrega rápida de meteoritos predicha por simulaciones orbitales.
- Para analizar los gases nobles producidos por los rayos cósmicos en antiguos meteoritos fósiles.
Principales métodos:
- Mediciones de gases nobles de alta sensibilidad en granos de cromita.
- Análisis de meteoritos fósiles de sedimentos de aproximadamente 480 millones de años de edad.
- Correlación de los tiempos de transferencia con la altura estratigráfica.
Principales resultados:
- Los tiempos de transferencia de meteoritos deducidos son tan cortos como aproximadamente 10^5 años.
- Los tiempos de transferencia aumentaron con la altura estratigráfica, consistente con la duración de la sedimentación.
- Evidencia de una lluvia de meteoritos de larga duración de un asteroide destruido.
Conclusiones:
- Confirma que las colisiones de asteroides pueden crear eficientes rutas de entrega de meteoritos a la Tierra.
- Demuestra que las fuertes resonancias en el cinturón de asteroides pueden entregar material al interior del Sistema Solar en escalas de tiempo cortas.
- Proporciona evidencia poderosa para la entrega rápida de fragmentos de asteroides después de eventos de impacto mayor.
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