Large impact features on middle-sized icy satellites

Icarus

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 421-443

  Moore, Jeffrey M ^a   Schenk, Paul M ^b   Bruesch, Lindsey S ^c   Asphaug, Erik ^c   McKinnon, William B ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact processes; Satellites of Saturn; Satellites of Uranus; Surfaces, satellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544243737     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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