A new approach to the measurement and analysis of impact craters

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 739-753

  Kay, L ^a   Podoleanu, A ^a   Seeger, M ^a   Solomon, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crater shape; Impact cratering; Surface fitting

Indexed keywords

IMPACT TESTING; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOR IMPACTS; POLYNOMIALS;

CRATER MORPHOLOGY; IMPACT CRATER;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031222463     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(96)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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