A New Mechanism Relevant to the Formation of Planetesimals in the Solar Nebula

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 318-321

  Wurm, Gerhard ^a   Blum, Jürgen ^b   Colwell, Joshua E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Experimental techniques; Planetesimals; Solar nebula; Solar System origin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001369386     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6620     Document Type: Article

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