The collision of solid bodies is one of the most fundamental geological processes in our solar system. The research unit MEMIN (Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact Crater Research Network) financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is aimed at understanding the dynamics of hypervelocity impact processes and the formation of meteorite craters by means of experimental and numerical techniques.
MEMIN is delocalized; apart from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the Fraunhofer Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik Freiburg, Universität Freiburg, GeoforschungsZentrum Potsdam, Technische Universität München, Universität Münster and University of California at Berkeley are involved.
