Rays and secondary craters of Tycho

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-40

  Dundas, Colin M ^a   McEwen, Alfred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845261378     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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