Did a large impact reorient the Moon?

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 358-366

  Wieczorek, Mark A ^a   Le Feuvre, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Cratering; Moon; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849160404     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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