The breakup of a main-belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5779, 2006, Pages 1490-

  Nesvorný, David ^a   Vokrouhlický, David ^a   Bottke, William F ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROID; COLLISION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTEROID; COLLISION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

DATURA;

EID: 33744973806     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126175     Document Type: Article

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7. This manuscript is based upon work supported by NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics program and the Czech Grant Agency.