"Comet-tail" ejecta streaks: A predicted cratering landform unique to Titan

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 617-623

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; TITAN;

EID: 2342577417     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00924.x     Document Type: Article

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