The collisional and dynamical evolution of the main-belt and NEA size distributions

Icarus

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 179-212

  O'Brien, David P ^a,b   Greenberg, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional evolution; Dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244459302     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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