Vesta as the howardite, eucrite and diogenite parent body: Implications for the size of a core and for large-scale differentiation

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 825-840

  Ruzicka, Alex ^a   Snyder, Gregory A ^a   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID 4 VESTA; DIOGENITE; EUCRITE; HED METEORITE; HOWARDITE; PARENT BODY;

EID: 0031422162     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01573.x     Document Type: Article

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