The fate of primordial lunar Trojans

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-244

  Ćuk, Matija ^a   Gladman, Brett J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; dynamics; Earth; formation; Moon; orbital; Resonances; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649101624     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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