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Formación lunar. formación lunar. Datando el evento de impacto de la formación de la Luna con meteoritos asteroidales
W F Bottke1, D Vokrouhlický2, S Marchi3
1Southwest Research Institute and NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)-Institute for the Science of Exploration Targets (ISET), Boulder, CO, USA. bottke@boulder.swri.edu.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 18, 2015
Resumen
El impacto gigante que formó la Luna expulsó escombros que calentaron los asteroides, dejando huellas en los meteoritos. Esta investigación confirma que la Luna se formó hace aproximadamente 4.47 mil millones de años.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ciencias planetarias Ciencias planetarias.
- Cosmoquímica es la cosmoquímica.
- El cráter de impacto es el cráter de impacto.
Sus antecedentes:
- El impacto gigante que formó la Luna fue la mayor colisión reciente en el sistema solar interior.
- Este evento expulsó una masa significativa del sistema Tierra-Luna.
- Los impactos de asteroides son cruciales para comprender la evolución planetaria y el procesamiento de materiales.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar el destino de los eyectos del impacto gigante que formó la Luna.
- Para determinar si estos eyectos podrían haber calentado significativamente los asteroides del cinturón principal.
- Para refinar la línea de tiempo de la formación de la Luna utilizando evidencia de meteoritos.
Principales métodos:
- Modelado del impacto de los eyectos de tamaño de un kilómetro en los asteroides del cinturón principal a altas velocidades (>10 km/s).
- Comparando los efectos de calentamiento de estos impactos de alta velocidad con las típicas colisiones de cinturón principal (~ 5 km / s).
- Analizando la evolución temporal de las firmas de calentamiento por impacto y ajustándolas a antiguos meteoritos de piedra.
Principales resultados:
- La eyección del impacto gigante que golpeó a los asteroides produjo ~ 1000 veces más material calentado por volumen que las típicas colisiones de asteroides.
- Estos impactos fueron suficientes para calentar y desgasar la roca del asteroide objetivo.
- Los resultados del modelado se alinean con las antiguas firmas de calentamiento por impacto encontradas en meteoritos de piedra.
Conclusiones:
- Los escombros del impacto de la formación de la Luna probablemente chocaron con y calentaron los asteroides del cinturón principal.
- El estudio apoya una edad estimada de formación de la Luna de ~ 4.47 mil millones de años atrás.
- Esto proporciona un vínculo entre el evento de impacto gigante y las características observables del meteorito.
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