Giant Craters on Mathilde

Icarus

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-48

  Cheng, A F ^a   Barnouin Jha, O S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Cratering; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002155138     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6122     Document Type: Article

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