Impact cratering and break up of the small bodies of the Solar System

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 817-826

  Leliwa Kopystynski J ^a,b   Burchell, M J ^c   Lowen, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes; Satellites; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249115040     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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