Laboratory craters: Modeling experiments for meteorite impact craters?

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 1, 2008, Pages 1132-1133

  Desai, Tara ^a   Batani, Dimitri ^a   Bussoli, Marco ^a   Villa, Anna Maria ^a   Dezulian, Riccardo ^a   Krousky, Eduard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b PALS Research Centre   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Complex craters; Electric shock; Laboratories; Laser ablation; Laser produced craters; Lasers; Measurement by laser beam; Meteorite impact; Moon; Plasmas; Shock pressure; Surface topography

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; LIGHT METALS; METEORITES;

ALUMINUM TARGETS; COMPLEX CRATERS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LABORATORIES; LASER ABLATION; LASER PRODUCED CRATERS; LASERS; MEASUREMENT BY LASER BEAM; METEORITE IMPACT; METEORITE IMPACTS; MOON; PLASMA SCIENCE; PLASMAS; SHOCK PRESSURE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE;

METEOR IMPACTS;

EID: 50249170462     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.926839     Document Type: Article

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