A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7074, 2006, Pages 295-297

  Farley, Kenneth A ^a   Vokrouhlický, David ^b   Bottke, William F ^c   Nesvorný, David ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ASTEROIDS; COMETS; INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES (IDPS);

DUST;

ASTEROID; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; MIOCENE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; GEOLOGICAL TIME; MIOCENE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EID: 31144471269     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04391     Document Type: Article

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