Raditladi and Rachmaninoff basins: Numerical modelling

Kurzfassung

Mercury hosts the largest population of peak-ring basins among all the rocky planets and satellites of the Solar System. Among the database of such structures, we take into analysis two recently imaged peak-ring basins, Raditladi and Rachmaninoff, both located in the northern hemisphere and about 300 km in diameter. In this work, we present the numerical simulations carried out through the iSALE shock code, along with the comparison with observations, in order to shed light on the primary impactor source of these basins.