ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Transitions in Rubble-pile Asteroid Chaotic Environment and granular Structures
We are now living exciting times for asteroid exploration. The increasing availability of in-situ observation data, providing unprecedented level of detail, makes the study of asteroids an exciting and living frontier. Asteroids are rubble piles, i.e., gravitational aggregates of loosely consolidated material. However, no direct measurements of asteroids’ interior exist and little is known about the mechanisms governing their formation and evolution. Not only limited by a lack of data, the understanding of asteroids’ properties is challenged at a fundamental level by their rubble-pile nature. This makes their dynamics subject to the laws of granular mechanics, one of the major unsolved…
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