Compositional Evolution of Saturn's Rings Due to Meteoroid Bombardment

Icarus

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-35

  Cuzzi, Jeffrey N ^a   Estrada, Paul R ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 0002457920     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5863     Document Type: Article

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