Hit-and-run planetary collisions

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7073, 2006, Pages 155-160

  Asphaug, Erik ^a   Agnor, Craig B ^a   Williams, Quentin ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MOON; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

HIT-AND-RUN PLANETARY COLLISIONS; METEORITE PETROGENESIS; MOON- TO MARS-SIZED PLANETARY EMBRYOS; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VELOCITY;

EID: 30544449823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04311     Document Type: Review

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