Express delivery of fossil meteorites from the inner asteroid belt to Sweden

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 400-413

  Nesvorný, David ^a   Vokrouhlický, David ^a   Bottke, William F ^a   Gladman, Brett ^b   Häggström, Therese ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247859237     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.021     Document Type: Article

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