New modeling showed how characteristics of craters depend on features of shock elements

The team of engineers from State university Campinas in Brazil found out that unique characteristics of craters, both on Earth, and on other bodies in space, are caused by unique features both a shock element, and a place where it gets. In the research published in the Physical Review E magazine, the group constructed and started modeling of collisions of shock elements with planets, the moon and other bodies. The previous researches showed that characteristics of shock craters strongly differ. For example, some of them are deeper, than the others. The field of fragments can be as...