Shock melting of ordinary chondrite powders and implications for asteroidal regoliths

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1329-1346

  Hörz, Friedrich ^a   Cintala, Mark J ^a   See, Thomas H ^b   Le, Loan ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; MELTING; METEORITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

EID: 29244480627     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00404.x     Document Type: Article

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