Ejecta from impacts at 0.2-2.3 m/s in low gravity

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 908-917

  Colwell, Joshua E ^a   Sture, Stein ^b   Cintala, Mark ^c   Durda, Dan ^d   Hendrix, Amanda ^e   Goudie, Tyler ^f   Curtis, Darren ^f   Ashcom, Daniel J ^f   Kanter, Matthew ^f   Keohane, Thomas ^f   Lemos, Andreas ^f   Lupton, Michael ^f   Route, Matthew ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; Impact processes; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249118147     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.019     Document Type: Article

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