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Table 5

Projectile sizes ddisrupt needed to disrupt targets with sizes Dtarget, as computed from Eq. (4).

D target N targets ddisrupt for
(km) in the MB (J/kg) (km)

100  ~192 1 × 105 12.6 to 23
200  ~23 4 × 105 40.0 to 73

Notes. Ntargets denotes the number of targets in the main belt, the specific energy needed for disruption, and ρtarget/ρproject the ratio of the respective bulk densities.

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