Asteroid collisions: Estimating their probabilities and velocity distributions

Icarus

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 436-449

  Vedder, John D ^a  

^a Parexic Research   (United States)

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EID: 0030268397     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0169     Document Type: Article

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