"Space Erosion" of Asteroids by Thermal Fatigue
Baked Asteroids Suffer Fatigue and Fragment
by Ian O'Neill, Discovery News, April 2, 2014
http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites/baked-asteroids-suffer-fatigue-and-fragment-140402.htm
Team finds regolith of small asteroids formed by
thermal fatigue, PhysOrg News, April 2, 2104
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-team-regolith-small-asteroids-thermal.html
Delbo, M., G. Libourel, J. Wilkerson, N. Murdoch,
P. Michel, K. T. Ramesh, C. Ganino, C. Verati, and
S. Marchi, 2014, Thermal Fatigue as the Origin of
Regolith on Small Asteroids. Published online 02
April 2014 DOI: 10.1038/nature13153
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13153.html
Yours,
Paul H.
