The shape distribution of asteroid families: Evidence for evolution driven by small impacts

Icarus

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Szabó, Gyula M ^a,b   Kiss, László L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149098458     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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