Fast delivery of meteorites to Earth after a major asteroid collision

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6997, 2004, Pages 323-325

  Heck, Philipp R ^a   Schmitz, Birger ^b   Baur, Heinrich ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^a   Wleler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; EARTH (PLANET); INERT GASES; METEORITES; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASTEROIDS; CHROMITE GRAINS;

METEOROLOGY;

ASTEROID; IMPACT; METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; DYNAMICS; FOSSIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 3142725570     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02736     Document Type: Article

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