Collisional spin up of nonspherical asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 300-305

  Yanagisawa, Masahisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asteroids, rotation; Collisional physics; Cratering; Impact processes; Rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036798668     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6928     Document Type: Article

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