Case 1 – Water flux along the orbit for a P/Read-like body on which an impact has exposed ice-rich layers. Upper left panel: impact at the equator, water flux with respect to time, for the first 140 years after the impact; upper right panel: impact at the equator, water flux with respect to time for a period of one hundred years immediately before the disintegration of the available icy material; bottom left panel: impact at the equator (upper curve) and at 30° (lower curve), water flux with respect to heliocentric distance. The fluxes are shown 10 years after the impact; bottom right panel: impact at 85°, water flux with respect to heliocentric distance. The flux is shown 10 years after the impact.