Do Cometesimal Collisions Lead to Bound Rubble Piles or to Aggregates Held Together by Gravity?

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 230-238

  Sirono, Sin Iti ^a   Greenberg, J Mayo ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Comets; Origin; Solar nebula

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000124677     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6337     Document Type: Article

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