Interplanetary dust from the explosive dispersal of hydrated asteroids by impacts

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6935, 2003, Pages 60-62

  Tomeoka, Kazushige ^a   Kiriyama, Koji ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a,c   Yamahana, Yasuhiro ^a   Sekine, Toshimori ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; METEORITES; MINERALOGY; PLANETS; POROSITY;

INTERPLANETARY DUST;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTEROID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IMPACT; INTERPLANETARY DUST; METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COSMOS; DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0037653658     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01567     Document Type: Article

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