Cratering Rates on the Galilean Satellites

Icarus

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-222

  Zahnle, Kevin ^a   Dones, Luke ^a   Levison, Harold F ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; GEOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; JUPITER; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0032400541     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6015     Document Type: Article

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