Refugia from asteroid impacts on early Mars and the early Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E12, 1998, Pages 28529-28544

  Sleep, Norman H ^a,b   Zahnle, Kevin ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; EARLY EARTH; HAZARD; IMPACT; MARS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; REFUGE;

EID: 0033604670     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JE01809     Document Type: Article

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