Impacts on asteroids: Fragmentation, regolith transport, and disruption

Icarus

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Nolan, Michael C ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^b   Greenberg, Richard ^c   Melosh, H Jay ^c  

^a ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes; Regolith; Surfaces, asteroid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035192126     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6660     Document Type: Article

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