Planetary Impact Rates from Ecliptic Comets

Icarus

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-420

  Levison, Harold F ^a   Duncan, Martin J ^b   Zahnle, Kevin ^c   Holman, Matt ^d   Dones, Luke ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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EID: 0000223915     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6313     Document Type: Article

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