Heating in collisions of solids:possible application to impact craters

TL;DR

This paper presents a simple physical model to estimate the heating of solid targets during impacts, with potential applications in planetary science.

Contribution

It introduces a straightforward calculation method for impact-induced heating of solids, relevant for understanding planetary impact processes.

Findings

Provides a formula for impact heating temperature

Highlights relevance to planetary impact studies

Suggests applications in planetology

Abstract

Due to the importance of collisions and impacts in early phases of the evolution of the planetary system, it is interesting to estimate the heating of a solid target due to an impact in it . A physically simple calculation of the temperature to which a solid target heats up after the impact of a projectile with mass $m$ and speed $v$ is performed,and possibilities for the application of this result in planetology are pointed out.