Fates of satellite ejecta in the Saturn system

Icarus

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 104-123

  Alvarellos, José Luis ^a   Zahnle, Kevin J ^b   Dobrovolskis, Anthony R ^c   Hamill, Patrick ^d  

^a Safety and Mission Assurance Manager Space Systems Loral   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact process; Orbits; Satellites of Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244457075     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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