Quantifying the risk posed by potential earth impacts

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 423-432

  Chesley, Steven R ^a   Chodas, Paul W ^a   Milani, Andrea ^b   Valsecchi, Giovanni B ^c   Yeomans, Donald K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Comets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036798860     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6910     Document Type: Article

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