Transient crater growth in granular targets: An experimental study of low velocity impacts into glass sphere targets

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 215-224

  Yamamoto, Satoru ^a   Wada, Koji ^b   Okabe, Norihisa ^a   Matsui, Takafumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Cratering; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646948551     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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