Detection of an impact-generated dust cloud around Ganymede

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 558-560

  Krüger, Harald ^a   Krivov, Alexander V ^b   Hamilton, Douglas P ^c   Grün, Eberhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; GANYMEDE; IMPACT;

ALTITUDE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CALLISTO;

EID: 0343919240     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21136     Document Type: Article

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