Clarification of the site of fall down of the copper impactor comet on the nucleus of comet 9P/Tempel 1 and confirmation of the sizes of artificial crater on the nucleus

Abstract

Clarified the fall down site of the copper impactor on the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 and confirmed the size of craters (diameter and depth), calculated within the framework of the theoretical Kruchinenko–Churyumov–Chubko's model.

Keywords

• remote aerospace researches
• surface of cometary nucleus