The formation of asteroid satellites in large impacts: Results from numerical simulations

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 382-396

  Durda, Daniel D ^a   Bottke Jr , William F ^a   Enke, Brian L ^a   Merline, William J ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^b   Richardson, Derek C ^c   Leinhardt, Zoë M ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; General; Impact processes; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842480955     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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