Interacting ellipsoids: A minimal model for the dynamics of rubble-pile bodies

Icarus

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 355-370

  Roig, F ^a   Duffard, R ^a   Penteado, P ^a   Lazzaro, D ^a   Kodama, T ^b  

^a OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141873028     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00216-1     Document Type: Article

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