A plausible cause of the late heavy bombardment

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 371-380

  Morbidelli, A ^a   Petit, J M ^a   Gladman, B ^a   Chambers, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT; LUNAR METEORITE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 0035052899     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2001.tb01880.x     Document Type: Article

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