Combined modeling of thermal evolution and accretion of trans-neptunian objects-Occurrence of high temperatures and liquid water

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-295

  Merk, Rainer ^a   Prialnik, Dina ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accretion; Asteroids; Comets; Kuiper Belt objects; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745993998     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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