Ejection-velocity distributions from impacts into coarse-grained sand

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 605-623

  Cintala, Mark J ^a   Berthoud, Lucinda ^b   Hörz, Friedrich ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EJECTA; LABORATORY METHOD; SAND; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033165703     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01367.x     Document Type: Article

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