Modeling crater populations on Venus and Titan

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 695-710

  Korycansky, D G ^a   Zahnle, K J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Craters; Impact processes; Titan; Venus

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ASTRONOMY; DEBRIS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; HYDRODYNAMICS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH;

CRATERS; IMPACT PROCESSES; TITAN; VENUS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17644402437     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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