MODELING OF THE IMPACT DYNAMICS OF LARGE METEORIC BODIES ON THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET F. N. Borovik , G. S. Romanov , and A. S. Smetannikov UDC 533.6.01 We present a procedure for numerical modeling and the results predicted for dynamics of crater formation in asteroid impact on the ground in the approximation of two-dimensional gas dynamics in an axisymmetric formulation. Gas-dynamic equations are solved using a fully conservative difference scheme in Eulerian variables. Predictions are performed with both an analytic representation of the equation of state (according to Tillotson) and wide-range semiempirical equations of state with a phase transition into vapor and a more exact specification of cold compression. Consideration is given to impact at a velocity of 50 km/sec with body dimensions of the order of 1 km. JEPTER7492019994 JEPTER749204