restitution for 1-m-diameter rocky bodies in impacts with collision speeds up to∼ 1.5 ms− 1.
The experiments were conducted in an outdoor setting, with two 40-ton cranes used to
suspend the∼ 1300-kg granite spheres pendulum-style in mutual contact at the bottoms of
their respective paths of motion. The spheres were displaced up to∼ 1m from their rest
positions and allowed to impact each other in normal-incidence collisions at relative speeds …