Earth/Moon impact rate comparison: Searching constraints for lunar secondary/primary cratering proportion

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 504-507

  Ivanov, B A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cratering; Earth; Impact processes; Moon; Near Earth objects; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745906833     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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