Impacts and cratering on Titan: A pre-Cassini view

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1009-1019

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0001683104     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(97)00085-8     Document Type: Article

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