Colors and collision rates within the Kuiper Belt: Problems with the collisional resurfacing scenario

Icarus

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-37

  Thébault, Philippe ^a   Doressoundiram, A ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt objects; Planetary dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037353934     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00004-6     Document Type: Review

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