Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7078, 2006, Pages 821-824

  Bottke, William F ^a   Nesvorný, David ^a   Grimm, Robert E ^a   Morbidelli, Alessandro ^b   O'Brien, David P ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IRON; PLANETS;

CHONDRITES; COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION; DIFFERENTIATED BODIES; TERRESTRIAL PLANET REGION;

METEORITES;

ALUMINUM 26; IRON; RADIOISOTOPE;

IRON METEORITE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETESIMAL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; FORCE; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 32844474106     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04536     Document Type: Article

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