Collisional Models and Scaling Laws: A New Interpretation of the Shape of the Main-Belt Asteroid Size Distribution

Icarus

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 431-440

  Durda, Daniel D ^a   Greenberg, Richard ^a   Jedicke, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0000284145     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.5960     Document Type: Article

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