Low velocity impacts into dust: Results from the COLLIDE-2 microgravity experiment

Icarus

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 188-196

  Colwell, Joshua E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisions; Dust; Experimental techniques; Planetary rings; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043205979     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00083-6     Document Type: Article

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