Disruption of kilometresized asteroids by energetic collisions

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6684, 1998, Pages 437-440

  Asphaug, E ^a,e   Ostro, S J ^b   Hudson, R S ^c   Scheeres, D J ^a   Benz, W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Washington State University   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; IMPACT; SHOCK WAVE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; EXPLOSION; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032482347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/30911     Document Type: Article

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