Antipodal effects of lunar basin-forming impacts: Initial 3D simulations and comparisons with observations

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 485-502

  Hood, Lon L ^a   Artemieva, Natalia A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

interior; Magnetic fields; Moon; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949113730     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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