Experimental study on collisional disruption of highly porous icy bodies

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 7 February 2012Yuri Shimaki, Masahiko ArakawaKnowing the collisional process among small porous icy bodies in the outer solar system is a key to understanding the formation of EKBOs and the [...]

Perpendicular flow deviation in a magnetized counter-streaming plasma

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 6 February 2012Y.-D. Jia, Y.J. Ma, C.T. Russell, H.R. Lai, G. Toth, …Charged dust exists in various regions in the solar system. How this charged dust interacts with the surrounding plasma [...]



Space Weathering of Small Koronis Family Asteroids in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 6 February 2012Cristina A. Thomas, David E. Trilling, Andrew S. RivkinFollowing the work ofRivkin et al. (2011) and Thomas et al. (2011a), we investigate space weathering trends in the Koronis [...]

Impact-driven vapor loss in outer solar system satellites: Consequences for the Late Heavy Bombardment

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 6 February 2012F. Nimmo, D.G. KorycanskyWe use recent hydrodynamical results () for the production of water vapor by hypervelocity impacts on ice targets to assess which present-day major [...]

Venus’ internal structure, temperature and core composition

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 3 February 2012A. AittaThe mass and radius of our closest neighbour Venus are only slightly smaller than those of the Earth indicating a similarity in composition. However, the lack of [...]



Geomorphological significance of Ontario Lacus on Titan: Integrated interpretation of Cassini VIMS, ISS and RADAR data and comparison with the Etosha Pan (Namibia)

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 31 January 2012T. Cornet, O. Bourgeois, S. Le Mouélic, S. Rodriguez, T. Lopez Gonzalez, …Ontario Lacus is the largest lake of the whole southern hemisphere of Titan, Saturn’s major moon. [...]

Regolith Thickness over the Lunar Nearside: Results from Earth-Based 70-cm Arecibo Radar Observations

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 2 February 2012Wenzhe Fa, Mark A. WieczorekThe inversion of regolith thickness over the nearside hemisphere of the Moon from newly acquired Earth-based 70-cm Arecibo radar data is investigated [...]

DEM Simulation of Rotation-Induced Reshaping and Disruption of Rubble-Pile Asteroids

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 2 February 2012Paul Sánchez, Daniel J. ScheeresA Soft-Sphere Discrete Element Method (SSDEM) is used to simulate the rotational reshaping and disruption of cohesionless self-gravitating [...]

Distribution and characteristics of Adirondack-class basalt as observed by Mini-TES in Gusev crater, Mars and possible volcanic sources

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 31 January 2012Victoria E. Hamilton, Steven W. RuffWe identified 104 unique rock targets belonging to the olivine-rich Adirondack class using Mini-TES data. Rare rocks on the West Spur of the [...]

Dust release and tensile strength of the non-volatile layer of cometary nuclei

Publication year: 2012Source: Icarus, Available online 31 January 2012Yuri Skorov, Jürgen BlumWe developed a thermophysical model for cometary nuclei, which is based upon the assumption that comets form by the gravitational instability of an [...]