Density and Porosity of Stone Meteorites: Implications for the Density, Porosity, Cratering, and Collisional Disruption of Asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-105

  Flynn, G J ^a   Moore, L B ^a   Klock W ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Inst Geol Wiss G   (Germany)

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EID: 0002628027     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6210     Document Type: Article

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