The Contribution of Asteroids to the Primordial Terrestrial Ocean / 小行星對於地球原始海水的貢獻

碩士 / 國立中央大學 / 天文研究所 / 91 / Direct integration method using the SWIFT RMVS3 (Regularized Mixed Variable Sympletic 3) code has been used to investigate the long-term (~ 100 Myr) orbital evolution of about 10 thousand test particles originally distributed in the asteroid belt. This is to provide statistical estimates of the collisional probabilities against surface impacts with Mars, Earth and Venus by strary bodies ejected from such intermediate source region of the Near-Earth asteroids. The major goal is to investigate the potential contributions to the primordial oceans of the terrestrial planets from the asteroidal objects.
Our calculations suggest that Earth could in principle gained between one to a few tens of the present oceanic water from asteroidal impact. But the exact value depends sensitively on the assumption of the initial mass distribution in the solar nebula.
When compared with the isotope ratios of D/H of the Standard Mean Oceanic Water (SMOW), the cometary water and primitive meteorites, it is concluded that asteroids should be a more important source of oceanic water than comets. But water contained in the Earth’s interior could also make significant contribution.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/091NCU05199009
Date January 2003
CreatorsDah-Lih You, 游大立
ContributorsWing-Huen Ip, 葉永烜
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format71

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