Tidal encounters of ellipsoidal granular asteroids with planets

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 312-330

  Sharma, Ishan ^a   Jenkins, James T ^a   Burns, Joseph A ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Geophysics; Interiors; Planetary dynamics; rotation; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745890630     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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