Fig. 4

Depth of fractured surface layer h (isolines), expressed as a fraction of meteoroid’s radius R, which prevents propagation of the damage deeper into the core shown here as a function of the spin axis orientation parameters, longitude λ (abscissa) and latitude β (ordinate). Three different size values, D = 10 cm (upper row), D = 1 cm (middle row), and D = 1 mm (bottom row), and three different values of the ξ parameter, ξ = 1 (left column), ξ = 0.5 (middle column), and ξ = 0.1 (right column) are considered. The core has the thermal and mechanical parameters of a carbonaceous chondrite, and minimum considered heliocentric distance along the orbit is 0.14 AU (that of the Geminid meteoroid stream).
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