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Top: minimum fragment size smin in a 20 m/s collision (Eq. (4)) for three materials, as a function of collider size s0. We have assumed η = 10-2 and smax = 2−1 / 3s0. The grey shaded areas are excluded because of mass conservation (left), and self-gravity (right). The dotted lines indicate the limit of Eq. (6). Bottom: critical energies versus size for equal-sized collisions. The energy needed to split a particle (e.g. Eq. (6)) is shown for η = 10-3 (dotted) and η = 1 (dashed). The solid curves correspond to catastrophic fragmentation of aggregates (Beitz et al. 2011), and ice and basalt (Benz & Asphaug 1999), showing both the strength-dominated (small sizes) and self-gravity dominated regimes (large sizes).

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