Impacts in the primordial history of terrestrial planets

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 907-916

  Morbidelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Impacts; Lunar basins; Planet formation; Teuestial planets

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; IMPACT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANET; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

EID: 36749022151     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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