Experimantal impacts into chondritic targets, part I: Disruption of an L6 chondrite by multiple impacts

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 771-803

  Cintala, Mark J ^a   Hörz, Friedrich ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 52949151214     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb00684.x     Document Type: Article

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