Scale Effects in Strength-Dominated Collisions of Rocky Asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-33

  Housen, Kevin R ^a   Holsapple, Keith A ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002738520     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6206     Document Type: Article

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