Low-Velocity Microgravity Impact Experiments into Simulated Regolith

Icarus

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Colwell, Joshua E ^a   Taylor, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisions; Dust; Experimental techniques; Planetary rings; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002711611     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6073     Document Type: Article

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