Swirls on the Moon and Mercury: Meteoroid swarm encounters as a formation mechanism

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 136-147

  Starukhina, Larissa V ^a   Shkuratov, Yuriy G ^a  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Comets; Cratering; Moon, surface; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642420517     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.022     Document Type: Article

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