Disruption of fragmented parent bodies as the origin of asteroid families

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6923, 2003, Pages 608-611

  Michel, Patrick ^a   Benz, Willy ^b   Richardson, Derek C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ASTEROID FAMILIES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROID; COLLISION; PARENT BODY;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0037421907     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01364     Document Type: Article

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