Atmospheric impacts, fragmentation, and small craters on Venus

Icarus

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 287-299

  Korycansky, D G ^a   Zahnle, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Craters; Impacts; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942586623     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.010     Document Type: Article

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