Direct N-body simulations of rubble pile collisions

Icarus

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-151

  Leinhardt, Zoë M ^a   Richardson, Derek C ^a   Quinn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes; Planetary formation; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001539220     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6370     Document Type: Article

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