Possible long-term decline in impact rates. 2. Lunar impact-melt data regarding impact history

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-23

  Hartmann, William K ^a   Quantin, Cathy ^b   Mangold, Nicolas ^c  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Cratering; dynamics; Impact processes; Meteorites; Moon; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845371313     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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